Emma Raducanu will face the winner of the match between Maria Camila Osorio Serrano and Aliaksandra Sasnovich, ranked 71 and 100 in the world respectively.
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The focus will instantly shift to Simona Halep, whom she may meet in the third round. Simona Halep, Raducanu’s idol is the two-time grand slam winner, and this would be the first time the two would possibly meet.
Before facing Emma Raducanu, the Romanian will have to beat the winner of the match between Zhang Shuai vs Marta Kostyuk
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Raducanu, a teenager whose remarkable victory last month pushed her from 150th to 22nd in the global rankings.
At Flushing Meadows in New York, Emma Raducano became the first qualifier in the Open era to win a major tournament, when she did not lose a set.
She made her WTA Tour debut at the Nottingham Open in June of this year, and she went on to reach the last 16 at Wimbledon in her second tour-level event. Raducanu will compete in her sixth tour-level event in Indian Wells.
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