Within the first of her new Wimbledon columns, BBC Sport analyst Naomi Broady – a former top-60 participant on the WTA Tour – focus on how British primary Emma Raducanu will look to beat 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova.

Being Emma Raducanu, significantly at Wimbledon, is rarely simple.

And it actually won’t be simple when she performs 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova in a troublesome second-round match on Wednesday.

Earlier than her triumph two years in the past, Vondrousova had barely performed on grass however is now top-of-the-line WTA gamers on this floor.

Listed here are what I feel would be the keys in deciding an intriguing contest on Centre Courtroom.

Since bringing Mark Petchey into her crew, Raducanu has executed some technical work with him on the forehand and serve.

I feel the technical experience is what he brings to the desk. Emma is a intelligent woman and she or he likes to know ‘why?’ when she is instructed to do one thing and desires to know the explanations behind it.

Mark, who used to teach Andy Murray when he was coming via, could be very technical and is ready to present these solutions.

That makes it simple for Emma to purchase into his concepts and so they share the identical imaginative and prescient about her tennis – which is essential.

She has made a couple of small tweaks on the forehand, and executed the identical with the serve, and it’s a mindset shift of being extra aggressive.

In a match like she had towards Mimi Xu within the first spherical – somebody youthful, somebody from the identical nation, on the massive event of Wimbledon – the forehand is de facto put to the take a look at.

The very fact it stood up in that tough state of affairs, and she or he could possibly be courageous behind it, was essential.

Sometimes, if you are going to be extra aggressive you are going to be hitting nearer to the sidelines and taking part in with smaller margin.

You are hitting the ball a lot more durable and with that you just take extra danger. So if you take extra danger it’s important to be ready to simply accept you could miss extra on events.

It is about preserving the steadiness – you want the success of the shot to outweigh the misses. It is risk-reward.

Slightly than simply being constant, preserving the ball again in play and risking the opponent having the ability to assault you, it’s about Emma taking management of the baseline.

She is of course an aggressive baseliner and stands additional in on the return.

She does that so effectively and it’s important for her to maintain the court docket place which she has gained all through the rally.

In opposition to Vondrousova, she might want to get the primary strike within the rally.

Vondrousova likes to manage the purpose by being awkward together with her leftiness – utilizing the spin, opening up the court docket and, in fact, placing the ball in from the alternative angle to which it normally does.

Grass-court tennis specifically is about first-strike tennis, much more so if you’re taking part in somebody who likes to dictate early within the rally like Vondrousova.

When an unseeded Vondrousova received the title two years in the past, she was described as one of many unlikeliest Wimbledon champions ever.

That was as a result of she had beforehand received solely 4 grass-court matches in her profession and was ranked forty second on this planet after lacking the earlier six months with a wrist harm.

Over the previous yr Marketa has struggled with a shoulder harm, taking part in solely 17 matches this season and dropping to 73rd and dropping outdoors the highest 150 in consequence.

However she reminded us all of her capacity by profitable the grass-court Berlin title final week – beating Australian Open champion Madison Keys, 2023 Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur and world primary Aryna Sabalenka on the way in which.

That is an unbelievable record. However what she does naturally matches so effectively on to this floor.

Within the Czech Republic, they spend a whole lot of time within the winter on indoor onerous courts. Getting used to that ball coming via low and quick means her recreation could be very simply translated on grass.

Utilizing the lefty serve and forehand, she actually hits on the surface of the ball so she cuts via the sidelines earlier than the ball reaches the baseline and hits with much more angle than a whole lot of the opposite gamers do.

She’s blissful to come back ahead, performs a whole lot of doubles, and could be very comfy coming as much as the online.

That’s once more one thing you’ll develop on an indoor onerous court docket and transitions effectively on to the grass.

With the serve it’s all concerning the angles and opening up the court docket, however she will be able to additionally disguise and flatten it out as and when she must and hold her opponent guessing.

I feel she’s top-of-the-line grass-court on the ladies’s tour – so Raducanu should be on the prime of her recreation if she goes to discover a well beyond the previous Wimbledon champion.

Naomi Broady was chatting with BBC Sport’s Jonathan Jurejko at Wimbledon