Emma Raducanu vs Alison van Uytvanck Wimbledon 2022 live: score and latest updates from the first round

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Raducanu goes back to that surgical inquisition of Van Uytvanvck's forehand, winning the first point on that side then pushing her over gradually to her backhand wing and messing with her timing with spin and bounce. Van Uytvanck smears another baseline forehand too long and Raducanu holds to love when the Belgian flays a backhand out of bounds. 

It's Raducanu's turn to go on to the front foot and races to love-40 with some withering groundstrokes and she only needs one of the break points when Van Uytvanck makes an appalling error with an overhead, smacking it long. She's as gritty as anything and that break-back is further evidence of that. 

Some rain about. 

From love-30, Raducanu exploits a couple of forehand errors from Van Uytvanck to tie it up at 30-all. But then Van Uytvanck plays the most wonderful cross court volley winner to earn break point which she converts after a terrific rally with a spanking top-spun forehand winner up the line.  

 We stay on serve after a second successive comfortable hold. Here's a BBC graphic showing the difference between where Raducanu stands for first and second serves. When Van Uytvanck nails her first serve, as she did in his game, she is dangerous. But Raducanu is killing her second serve.

Perfect response from Raducanu after the marathon that preceded it, holding to love and unreeling a  gorgeous, running, forehand, cross-court winner at 40-love to clinch it. 

A double fault, her second, leaves Van Uytvanck quaking at love-30 and then Raducanu smkes a backhand winner up the line. Three break points. The first one slips by with a