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The winner of this match will face the No11 seed Belinda Bencic in the quarter-finals. She beat the No 7 seed Iga Świątek earlier today thanks, in part, to an epic first set tiebreak, which she won 14-12.
The players are now on court and we’ll be starting the match in the next few minutes.
Much has been written about Raducanu and no doubt that will continue to be the case for the immediate future (the New York Times led its preview of this match on the Briton rather than the American Rogers today) but Rogers is a very dangerous player. Although she’s ranked in the 40s she has a good record in grand slams this year - she reached the fourth round in Melbourne, the third round at Wimbledon and was a quarter-finalist here last year, where she lost to the eventual champion, Naomi Osaka. And she hasn’t been too bad this year either: she beat the world No1, Ash Barty in the last round. Here’s how she did it:
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