On the afternoon of January 4, Beijing time, in the second round of the WTA250 Auckland women's singles, Raducanu played against Svitolina.
Raducanu is a talented Chinese girl who once won the women's singles title at the US Open, which made her quickly famous, but after that, due to various reasons such as injuries, Raducanu's results have dropped significantly, and the current world ranking is only 301st, this is the first tournament she participated in after her comeback, and in the first round against Ruse, Raducanu won 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, and won her first victory after eight months of absence due to injury. Raducanu underwent wrist and ankle surgery last year and now needs to adjust slowly. Svitolina is a Ukrainian star and the No.2 seed in the tournament, who defeated Denmark's former world player Wozniacki in the first round, which was a big test for Raducanu.
In the first set, Raducanu played quite well, and Svitolina fell into passivity, and after the first six games, Raducanu was already 5-1 ahead. In the 7th game, Svitolina had no way back in the set and won consecutive game points, and Raducanu chased it strongly to 40-40! In the 8th game, Svitolina broke back 3-5 and chased another game. In the 9th game, Svitolina continued to hold serve and bit 4-5. In the 10th game, Raducanu wasted another chance to make it 5-5 for Svitolina. In the 11th game, Svitolina held serve and overtook 6-5. In the 12th game, Raducanu held serve 6-6. In the tie-break, Raducanu won 7-5.
In the second set, Svitolina came up to break 1-0, and Raducanu quickly broke back to 1-1. In the third game, Svitolina broke again to make it 2-1. In the fourth game, Svitolina held serve 3-1. In the fifth game, Raducanu held serve to stop the decline. Then he won two games in a row and overtook 4-3. In the eighth game, Svitolina saved a break point and struggled to hold serve 4-4. Then the two fought 6-6 and tied seven again. In the tie-break, Svitolina won 7-3.
- Second, Vittolina broke the 5-0 opening game with consecutive draws. In the 7th game, Svitolina cashed in on her serve to win the game, winning 6-1, and the big score was reversed 2-1 to advance.