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Emma Raducanu continued her impressive run at the Miami Open by brushing aside Amanda Anisimova to reach her first WTA 1000 quarter-final.
The Brit took just 69 minutes to breeze past the number 17 seed, triumphing 6-1 6-3 to make it into the next round.
Raducanu came out on a mission, starting strong with back-to-back breaks of serve to surge into a 4-0 lead.
Though Anisimova held off a break point in the next game, she had no answers for the 22-year-old, who took the first set at the second time of asking in just 24 minutes, without dropping any points on her own serve.
Despite a medical timeout between sets for the American, who looked to be struggling with a wrist problem, she dug in during the second set, defending an early break point to stay in the tie.
Though Raducanu failed to defend the only break point she faced, she remained in control with two breaks of her own to set up a meeting with either Jessica Pegula or Marta Kostyuk in the last eight.
"I've come a long way in the last week since Indian Wells. I wasn't necessarily feeling great about my tennis, about everything," Raducanu told Sky Sports.
"This week I have some really good people around me who I trust and who I have fun with off the court as well. That's extremely important.
"When I play my best, I am definitely authentic, true to myself and creative. I feel when I am boxed into a regimented way then I am not able to express myself in the same way. So I'm happy with how I realised that this week."
Data Debrief: Raducanu on a roll
Raducanu had lost five of the six matches she had played since the Australian Open, but she has certainly hit a rich vein of form in Miami.
Raducanu has won four consecutive WTA main draw matches for the second time in her career - the first time she did so was during her US Open win in 2021 (seven wins in a row).
It is also just the second time in her career that she has defeated two top 20 players in a single tournament (Anisimova and Emma Navarro in Miami). The first was again in New York on the way to the grand slam title, beating Belinda Bencic and Maria Sakkari on that occasion.
Since the format's introduction in 1990, Raducanu is just the second British player to reach a quarter-final in Tier I/WTA-1000 events, after Johanna Konta.