Raducanu v Rybakina live: US Open 2025 score and latest updates from blockbuster third-round clash

Raducanu puts a forehand into the open court to move 40-0 and looks set for a comfortable opening hold.

But three unforced errors in a row drags Raducanu into deuce, as the serve completely disappears.

Rybakina targets the second serve and Raducanu fires wide on the forehand, bringing up break point.

Raducanu saves with the ace! This is already a huge game in this set.

Raducanu has hit just one winner in the match so far, while Rybakina has 11 already.

That illustrates the difference in the rallies. Rybakina is so dominant at the moment and outpowering Raducanu.

Got to find a way to break it up. Raducanu will serve to start the second set.

It’s looking easy for Rybakina. She has all the time to blast her huge forehand and send Raducanu scrambling. It comes down down power and Raducanu has yet to find a way to disrupt the barrage from the other end of the court.

Rybakina double faults on her first set point, but then puts away an overhead that just caught the edge of the line. Raducanu took a long look at that. Rybakina finds the wide serve on the second set point and Raducanu can’t return.

Anything half a yard short from Raducanu is being gobbled up by Rybakina and the flat power of her strike means the groundstrokes are flashing into Raducanu.

After two big winners, Rybakina’s deep return catches the baseline and Raducanu concedes the break.

Rybakina will serve for the set.

When Rybakina is playing like this it really is incredible that she is yet to reach another grand slam final since her Australian Open final defeat to Aryna Sabalenka in 2023. She’s yet to advance past the third round of the US Open in three attempts, but this is a phenomenal start.

Rybakina is really dominating with the crosscourt forehand to Raducanu’s, really through the sheer weight.

Another mighty one-two punch from Rybakina with the big serve and forehand strike, pinning Raducanu into the corner.

Raducanu needs to stay calm and tell herself that there is still plenty of time to get back into this first set.

Importantly, she gets on the board as Rybakina puts a couple of returns long. Raducanu then moves in and puts away a forehand, which is greeted by an enthusiastic cheer from the Armstrong crowd.

A scrappier game on serve from Rybakina but she absorbs the Raducanu return to flash another brilliant winner.

Raducanu, a little off balance, then nets on the deep Rybakina ball. A dominant start form the ninth seed.

That’s the first time Raducanu has been broken at this year’s US Open.

That was a statement of a game from Rybakina, who out hits Raducanu with that flat punchy strike get the opening break. A ferocious forehand brings up three break points.

Rybakina makes a couple of errors as Raducanu saves the first two. Rybakina then gets a look at a second serve, and although Raducanu makes a scrambling return out wide, Rybakina fires into the opposite corner.