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Raducanu then returned to the baseline to serve for the first set but was broken to love as she appeared to be struggling with her wrists. But the former world No 10 was quick to bounce back as she dominated in the tiebreak, eventually taking the opener 7-6(3).

But the wrist issue still seemed to be hanging around after the first set as Croft said Raducanu had been holding her ice towel to it, having pulled down her sweatbands to reveal strapping. “If you just notice there, the wrist is now taped, it’s underneath that wristband but she’s also just had an ice pack underneath that towel at the change of ends,” she explained.

“So not only the ice pack around her neck, she’s had one around her wrist as well. But it didn’t seem to bother her too much in that first set and it was just extraordinary to witness the capitulation of Magda Linette’s tennis down the other end.”