How can Raducanu stun the 'Queen of Clay'?

Raducanu, who has climbed as much as forty first within the rankings after an encouraging few months, has beforehand had little pleasure towards Swiatek.

The 2021 US Open champion has misplaced all 4 of their earlier conferences – twice on indoor clay in Stuttgart, and twice on laborious courts at Indian Wells and this 12 months’s Australian Open.

The 6-1 6-0 defeat in Melbourne was significantly chastening, with Swiatek’s groundstrokes proving too highly effective and exact for Raducanu.

“She will get actually fired up when she performs me – I do not know why that’s however she’s all the time performed rather well,” Raducanu advised BBC Sport.

“I am unsure if it’s a me factor however each time now we have performed she has been excessive stage.”

Raducanu has improved within the 4 months since they final met, however the way in which she was outclassed by world quantity two Coco Gauff on the Madrid clay confirmed the hole she nonetheless has to bridge.

“Towards a high quality opponent who shouldn’t be going to go away psychologically, that is the place you will see the place Raducanu’s sport is at,” mentioned Croft.

“She is aware of she has to come back out and be aggressive towards Swiatek. She will not get away with simply pushing the ball round.

“She might want to get the primary strike in and also will must get depth – or angle – to attempt to management the purpose.

“When you begin to play catch-up towards Swiatek in a rally you’ll come out second greatest.”