Local Councillor Majid Mahmood, Cabinet member for the Environment acknowledged there is a problem during June but added the majority of students try to get rid of their waste without dumping it on the street. ‘It is about time some of the students leaving the mess were educated and perhaps signed some sort of agreement at the start of year that they will leave the place without mess and bags of their rubbish.’ Barring two poor points to open the match – a ballooned forehand and a double fault – Raducanu was flawless.
With 76 per cent of her first serves hitting their mark, she faced and survived only two break points in moving 5-0 ahead and then closing for 6-1. There might also be some intrigue around where the tournament situates them. It seemed to suit Raducanu that for this tie she was given a minor demotion to Court No 1, later described by the Brit as her ‘favourite court’, having not received an assignment away from Centre since the fourth round of her breakout act here in 2021.
Amusingly it also saw a lower-profile Beckham in the crowd – Romeo instead of David, who was present on Monday. The son got the better deal. Education for Jews is of paramount importance and always has been. It was at that point the topic of Murray was brought up. His farewell to Wimbledon had expected to culminate with a doubles collaboration with brother Jamie, but on Tuesday night he texted Raducanu to see if she fancied pairing up. Her deliberations lasted around 10 seconds.
In losing only three games to the Belgian, this was Raducanu’s most one-sided win since that fairytale of New York in 2021, and was close in performance levels to her victory over the world No 5, Jessica Pegula, at Eastbourne a week earlier. If the tale of the past three years tells us anything, it is that Raducanu has already undergone a vast education since the most astonishing of starts. Some of the problems have had more than a whiff of self-creation about them; others, particularly the injuries, can be traced to bad luck.
But still she attracts a crowd like few others in these parts and there is considerable excitement about where this run will lead in a favourable side of the draw. Raducanu was relentless, which could be applied equally to her serving, groundstrokes and control of the big moments in a match that was closer than the scores suggest. Most of the games were competitive, but almost all of them were bent to Raducanu’s will on Court No 1. To go by her own words, a ‘dream came true’ in the morning, when it was confirmed she would pair with Andy Murray for the mixed doubles, before she then sprinted further away from recent nightmares in the evening.
‘I think some things are a once-in-a-lifetime memory,’ Raducanu said. ‘At the end of my life, when I’m like 70, I know I’m going to have that memory of playing Wimbledon with Andy Murray. It was an honour to be asked.
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