Emma Raducanu won her opening match at the Strasbourg Open on Monday with a dominant display against the No. 6 seed Daria Kasatkina.
The pair have met three times before, with the Brit unable to take a set in any of their previous matches, but Raducanu was quick off the mark on French clay to take the win in straight sets 6-1, 6-3.
Raducanu excelled in the first set with her opponent struggling to make an early impact, ending the last game of the set with a double fault to add to her tally of 18 unforced errors.
The second set was a more levelled display between the world No. 17 and 43 but Raducanu outpaced Kasatkina, sealing the win to extend her most successful clay-court swing of her career.
"I think as I spend more time on clay I'm starting to like it a little bit more and more," Raducanu said after the win. "I'm kind of building my relationship with the surface."
Raducanu will face last year's finalist Danielle Collins in the second round.
