Lily Miyazaki turned the primary Brit to lose in the principle draw of the US Open this 12 months. The British No 7 certified and received her first match win at a Grand Slam within the first spherical however Belinda Bencic proved too robust an opponent, successful 6-Three 6-3.
After the match, Miyazaki mentioned: “I feel, yeah, it was a troublesome match at this time. I am nonetheless tremendous happy with these couple of weeks.
“Yeah, I feel at this time was undoubtedly a step up in degree from the earlier matches that I performed, however I feel I used to be nonetheless in a position to get fairly shut together with her at some moments.”
Reflecting on her run in Flushing Meadows, she added: “I feel I’ve learnt that if I put my degree on the market, then I’ve the sport to, I do not know, like, actually disrupt different gamers’ video games.
“As a result of even at this time I felt like as soon as I received into the factors I used to be in a position to play my sport and type of management the factors fairly properly. So I feel I can take quite a lot of confidence from that.”