In the suffocating, repulsive heat and humidity of a brutal Washington DC summer, Emma Raducanu navigated the conditions and her incessant opponent alike to pull off one of the more resilient wins of her career, overcoming Camila Osorio of Colombia 7-6(5), 7-6(4) in two hours, 50 minutes to reach the quarter-finals of the Citi Open.
“I think I died about three times in that match and then came back,” she said. “Honestly, I don’t know how. Camila is such a battler. Every single point I was working so, so hard. Sometimes it wasn’t necessarily the strongest shots but you’ve just got to generate, generate over and over again.”
