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What went wrong for Raducanu in Melbourne?

When Grand Slam draws are made, we're all guilty of plotting ahead.

It turns out we looked one round too far in the case of Emma Raducanu at the Australian Open.

A potential shot at top seed Aryna Sabalenka loomed in round three, but the British number one fell to a stinging defeat by Austria's Anastasia Potapova on Wednesday.

Raducanu, seeded 28th, was completely out-of-sorts against 55th-ranked Potapova in a 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 second-round loss.

BBC Sport analyses what went wrong for 23-year-old Raducanu and where she goes from here.

Raducanu made encouraging progress last year, climbing back into the world's top 30 and playing more matches than in any previous season of her career.