![]() Emma Raducanu on facing ‘the best player of all time’ Serena Williams: ‘It’s a great gift to play the best’ Their careers, though, haven’t overlapped as British No 1 Raducanu only made her breakthrough last year while Williams has not played too many competitive matches over the 18 months due to injury, but on Wednesday they will step onto the same court for the first time. ![]() Williams, meanwhile, is an all-time great having won 23 Grand Slams – the most in the Open Era – while she also spent more than 300 weeks at the top of the WTA Rankings. Raducanu is the reigning US Open champion having stunned the tennis world last September when she became the first qualifier – man or woman – to win a Grand Slam, and she did so in her main draw debut at Flushing Meadows. ![]() Just a few days after tennis icon Williams announced that she was retiring from the sport with the US Open likely to be her last tournament, the computers dished up a glamorous first-round draw between Williams and the 10th seeded Raducanu at the WTA 1000 event in Cincinnati, Ohio. ![]() Serena Williams and Emma Raducanu will square off for the first time – and probably the last time – in their careers at the Western & Southern Open on Wednesday morning (UK time).
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