Pain-free Emma Raducanu breezes to 1st-round win at Aussie Open

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Emma Raducanu celebrated playing her first Grand Slam match in 12 months with a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over American Shelby Rogers on Tuesday in the first round of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Raducanu, a 21-year-old from Great Britain, won 91 percent of her first-serve points and fired four aces en route to dispatching Rogers in 76 minutes.

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