Four years ago, Emma Raducanu shocked the tennis world when she won the US Open as an 18-year-old qualifier. But nearly as staggering had been Raducanu’s lack of success at Flushing Meadows since then.

Emma Raducanu won her first match at the US Open since her 2021 triumph by breezing past a Japanese qualifier in windy conditions.

Emma Raducanu’s smile is back. So is her game. The young Brit broke her three-year U.S. Open drought, winning her first match in Flushing Meadows since the breakthrough 2021 title that changed her life.