Emma Raducanu vs Daria Snigur LIVE: Latest score and updates from Nottingham

Raducanu has a chance to kill the match off now, she’s 0-30 up on Snigur’s serve, and a sliced serve is returned deep which the Ukrainian cannot return in.

Raducanu has three break points, Snigur saves the first, but she can’t do anything about the second, and the Briton is in pole position.

Snigur takes the first point on Raducanu’s serve, and the clapping from the fans is a bit more muted, but the Brit is level after a relatively lengthy baseline rally exchange.

Raducanu produces a stunning backhand to carve out a winning point down the line, and that does deserve a fist pump!

Snigur has a break point at 30-40, after one just slid away from Raducanu, but the Brit produces a big serve to take the game to deuce.

But Snigur plays the ball down the line after Raducanu was caught between the lines having come in for a drop shot, and will have a second break point.

Again, it’s saved by a big serve from Raducanu, and a backhand slice to follow up, gives her the game point, and she takes the game with another wide serve, her 10th ace.

Snigur takes the first point, but after a discussion with the umpire when her serve was called out,m she has to set herself.

A wild forehand when the net pushed the ball back into the court sees the server move 30-0 ahead, and then to three game points.

Raducanu just gets a racket to that one and Snigur holds to love!

Raducanu takes the first point of her service game as Snigur returns wide, but she loses the next two points.

Another ace makes it 30-30, she has performed well on her serve today, and another deep serve into the corner gives the Brit the game point at 40-30.

A good forehand from Snigur takes this game to deuce, and another big ace gives Raducanu the advantage again, and she takes the game with the next serve that Snigur cannot return.

Raducanu then attacks Snigur’s serve to take the first point of the next game, but the Ukrainian fights back to move into a 30-15 lead, and sets up game point with an open forehand down the line.

But Raducanu is not out of this yet, winning two points in a row to take the game to deuce.

Another strange bounce and Raducanu can just fend the ball off her racket and straight into the turf, but she will have another chance by winning the next point for a second deuce.

Snigur with another advantage after a return comes of the frame of Raducanu’s racket, but the Brit takes it to a third deuce with a powerful forehand.

This time, Raducanu has the advantage, and she will take the break thanks to a Snigur double fault.

Snigur hits the ball just into the tramlines and Raducnau has the first points on her first service game of the second set.

She plays a brilliant shot at the net, covered the court well to get there, Snigur left the ball thinking it was going long, but it dropped well inside the baseline. That warranted a big fist pump from the Brit!

Snigur levels with an almost perfect backhand down the line, 30-30, but she follows it up with a return that was overhit, and another one to give Raducanu the hold.

Snigur takes the first point of the second serve after capitalising on a fortunate bounce off the net.

Raducanu is adamant that one from Snigur went out of the baseline, but there are no reviews and no hawk eye, and the Ukrainian moves 40-0 ahead.

Snigur holds the game to love.

Raducanu is serving for the set, and she is coming out superior now in these baseline exchanges, keeping Snigur on one side of the court before winning the point with a cross-court backhand.

She moves 30-0 up when Snigur fires a backhand into the tramlines, and creates three set points with a great wide second serve that the Ukrainian couldn’t get a racket to.

She takes it with the first set point, that was a good response from losing her first service game, she won six games in a row, to take the first set in just 34 minutes.

Snigur goes ahead on her serve, and Raducanu seems more relaxed this time with the calls after questioning the line judges in her first matches.

Snigur has double-faulted for the second time, to make it 30-30, and misses another attempted drop shot to give Raducanu a break point.

Raducanu takes it! It’s a double break in the first set.

Raducanu has not been at her best on her own serve so far in this match, but this is a key chance to move significantly ahead in the first set.

She serves well for the first point, taking a 15-0 lead, and follows it up with a wide ace.

Another ace makes it 40-0, that was her fifth of the match, and another wide one sees the British player pull ahead to the appreciation of the home crowd.