Emma Raducanu’s best performance since US Open glory raises the question: How far can she go?

Joy, type, conviction: Emma Raducanu’s 75-minute demolition of Elise Mertens shimmered with all these qualities and extra. When she lashed one backhand winner down the line to cement her dominance, an enraptured Court No 1 crowd barely restrained themselves from giving her a standing ovation on the spot. As she bounded ecstatically to the internet to have a good time the 6-1, 6-2 scoreline, the significance of the second was not misplaced on anyone. This was, fairly merely, her most interesting performance at a Grand Slam