Things seemed to be running smoothly for Emma Raducanu for much of her Wednesday afternoon in Melbourne. An early break lead provided her with a chance to serve out the first set of her second round match. Things were falling into place.
However, she had earned that lead simply by scrapping from behind the baseline and was never truly comfortable with her strokes. Under pressure in the decisive moment of the match, her forehand crumbled as she relinquished the lead and eventually fell 7-6 (3), 6-2 to Anastasia Potapova.
