Brits Raducanu & Norrie Cause Upsets In Washington

Britain's Emma Raducanu and Cameron Norrie some secured awesome victories astatine nan Washington Open connected Tuesday.

Raducanu upset Ukraine's world number 27 and seventh seed Marta Kostyuk 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 successful nan first round.

She faces Naomi Osaka adjacent aft nan four-time Grand Slam victor overcame Yulia Putintseva 6-2 7-5.

In nan men's singles, Norrie had to excavation heavy to hit 2nd seed and world number 7 Lorenzo Musetti 3-6 6-2 6-3 - his first occurrence complete a top-10 subordinate successful 2 and a half years - successful nan 2nd round.

The 29-year-old will play American 14th seed Brandon Nakashima successful nan past 16.

Raducanu, nan British number three, took nan opening group aft a gruelling 71 minutes, contempt sacrificing a 4-0 lead successful nan tie-break.

She past held a 3-0 advantage successful nan 2nd group but Kostyuk, who had mislaid 5 singles matches successful a statement since May, rallied to break and tie level astatine 4-4.

Having forced Kostyuk to service to enactment successful nan match, nan Ukrainian double faulted to manus Raducanu 2 lucifer points, which nan Briton took connected her 2nd chance.

The 2021 US Open champion said it was an "extremely bully win".

"I'm happy pinch nan measurement I fought done nan first group and successful nan second, stayed reliable erstwhile I needed to," she added.

Norrie, meanwhile, managed only 3 winners successful nan first set, 2 of them connected aces, but dominated nan 2nd to unit a decider.

After redeeming 5 break points successful nan 5th crippled of nan last set, he collapsed Musetti, who had a first-round bye, successful nan sixth to return a 4-2 lead.

The Italian saved 2 lucifer points successful nan last crippled - 1 connected a Norrie double responsibility - but past sent a backhand beyond nan baseline, handing nan Briton triumph aft 2 hours and 7 minutes.

Admitting he was playing "like a kid again", Norrie said: "I conscionable benignant of fto spell of nan expectations and I'm playing tennis much to bask it now.

"You've sewage to bask it different you tin get burned retired connected this agelong schedule."