Emma Raducanu Stuttgart Press Conference after Linda Noskova win: Winning 6-0 didn't surprise me

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E. RADUCANU/L. Noskova 6-0 7-5
EMMA RADUCANU: Linda is a very tough opponent. She's been doing great and is in good form. I knew it was going to be a tough match going in, and didn't really have much time to recover last night. So to come out and play good tennis again is, yeah, it's something that I'm really pleased with.
I'm also particularly pleased with recovering from 4-3 in the second set. I had a break point. I hit a volley that was I think going a foot wide. Missed that, lost the game, and then I just refocused and kept in it, because, yeah, that's one of the turning points in the match I feel like if I would have got broken and she's serving for the set. So, yeah, I was very pleased with that.
MODERATOR: Questions.
Q. Emma, last round you played against Angie, who is 36 years old, and now it's against Linda. She is 19. Do you feel the difference in tennis generation?
RADUCANU: I feel like the new generation is definitely dominating. If you look at the draw, I mean, everyone is very young. I mean, you look at the two people playing. They are both my year group, as well.
I knew it from juniors when we were playing Orange Bowl and everything. We knew 2002 was strong, and I think part of it helped, like, us push each other growing up in juniors.
Linda has pure firepower and she can hit through a lot of people.
Q. Between what you said yesterday and today, it sounds like you're very pleased with how you're handling the clutch points in the last two matches and obviously in Fed Cup as well. What do you think is kind of the difference there? Those are those moments that are really elusive sometimes for players to kind of be nails on, like, all the time. What do you think is the difference for how it's coming together right now?
RADUCANU: Yeah, I think it helps I feel like the last two tournaments, I'd say, I have more of a serve, so it's more of a weapon. I feel like I can raise my game more on that.
I feel like at the start of the year it was more just having to work so hard and win every point from the baseline. I feel like that definitely makes a difference.
Equally I just feel like I trust all the work I have been doing on the practice courts so much. I have been working at it really hard. I wouldn't say, yeah, I do anything particularly special. I just try and stay in the present and rely and fall back on my training.
Q. Iga Swiatek. Obviously played twice I think, once also here. Wonder if you remember something about that match?
RADUCANU: Yeah, I mean, I remember. We actually had a pretty tough match. I think it was like 4 and 4, something like that.
But I remember I served really well in that match and it kept me in. It's obviously tough playing Iga, because she plays pretty heavy, she plays fast. She has a lot of options at her disposal. It's obviously going to be a really difficult match tomorrow but one where I have zero to lose and I think one that the crowd really want to see.
Q. Things are just getting better and better at the moment for you, but were you surprised at the scoreline at the end of the first set?
RADUCANU: No, I wasn't, to be honest, not because, you know, I was expecting to play that well and win a 6-0 set, like, Linda is a really tough opponent. I was just not thinking about the score at all. I think sometimes I have the ability to lose track of the score like I did last week when I thought the match was over, embarrassingly.
But I think that the best way that I'm kind of dealing with everything is that she's just zoning in on the games and just trying to be as stingy as possible with everything. Yeah, I'm not thinking about the score too much, because I think when you start thinking ahead about the score or whatever, then you start getting in your own head.
Q. Congratulations, & welcome to your level that we all know. I want to ask you about your physical state, because mentally you look -- I mean, we see glimpses of your highest point in your career. Physically, how are you now?
RADUCANU: Yeah, I mean, it's no secret that I'm tired. I mean, I have played, like, a lot of tennis in the last week, but I'd way rather be in this position where I have a lot of matches under my belt, feeling confident & good on the court, and tired.
I think, to be honest, it's a win-win from now. If I win, great. If I don't, I get to rest. Honestly, I'm just going to say how it is.
But obviously I'm happy that I was able to hold out physically last weekend, two three-set matches back to back, & then also here turning it over in less than 24 hours is a great achievement for me and again tomorrow. Yeah, everything is just about recovery right now.
Q. What's your relationship with clay nowadays?
RADUCANU: It's a budding relationship. I feel like it's one that could become really strong in the future, and I'm just, you know, just entertaining and courting it for the moment.