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Emma Raducanu earned a hard-fought triumph successful a "tough" lucifer against Peyton Stearns successful the archetypal circular of the Korea Open successful Seoul.
The Briton, who is fig 70 successful the world, was playing her archetypal lucifer since her opening-round US Open exit and emerged a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victor against her 48th-ranked American hostile aft 2 hours and 43 minutes.
"I'm arrogant to person made it done to the adjacent round. It was pugnacious and precise humid," said Raducanu.
"It was a pugnacious lucifer to get through. I haven't played galore matches successful the past fewer months.
"Peyton is simply a truly bully subordinate successful bully signifier truthful I'm truly pleased."
Raducanu started powerfully by breaking Stearns successful the opening crippled and, contempt losing the adjacent crippled connected her serve, again broke her hostile to pb 2-1.
It was a motion of things to travel arsenic determination were 8 breaks of service successful a fluctuating archetypal set, which Raducanu yet won connected a tie-break aft 74 minutes.
Both players saved interruption points successful the 2nd acceptable earlier Raducanu took 1 to pb 5-3.
However, successful keeping with the match, she was breached erstwhile serving for the match, portion Stearns besides failed to clasp her service erstwhile 6-5 up.
The lucifer went to different tie-break which Raducanu won to unafraid victory, aft a 2nd acceptable lasting 89 minutes.
Raducanu volition play China's Yue Yuan, who is 40 successful the satellite rankings, successful the adjacent round.
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