Raducanu is less than three weeks away from her first-ever title defence which happens to be at one of the biggest tournaments in the sport - the US Open. The ...
“Being successful at a young age is a very beautiful thing, especially if you are doing what you love, as is my case, in that sense I am very proud of myself. Now inside the world’s top 10, the 19-year-old is yet to make it beyond a quarter-final in the tournaments she has played since winning the title in Flushing Meadows, and has been struggling with a number of injuries and niggles this season as well as several coaching changes. Emma Raducanu has revealed that she has changed her social media habits to avoid being “attacked” and criticised.
Emma Raducanu was knocked out of the Canadian Open on Tuesday evening with a straight-sets defeat to Camila Giorgi.
Raducanu, who had failed to convert game point for a 5-3 lead in the opening set, broke Giorgi's first service game in the second to lead 2-0. Both players lost serve three times in a hard-fought opening set before Raducanu dug deep to fend off set point in the 12th game to force a tie-break. The British teenager squandered chances to seize the initiative in either set and let slip a 2-0 lead in the second before bowing out in one hour and 49 minutes.
Emma Raducanu suggests she is looking forward to the end of US Open as then she feels she will be able to "start again." At last year's US Open, ...
Like if my ranking plummets to like 1000 or whatever, then I don't care," Raducanu said. Raducanu is currently the 10th player in the world with 2,772 points under her belt. At last year's US Open, Raducanu made all the headlines when she became the first qualifier in tennis history.
Defending champion Camila Giorgi opened her week at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers in style with a straight-sets win over No.9 seed Emma ...
Raducanu hit all three of her winners in the first set. A rematch upcoming: Mertens' was Giorgi's first-round foe in her title run last year. Last year in Montreal, Giorgi bagged the biggest title of her career with six wins over players including Elise Mertens, Petra Kvitova, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Karolina Pliskova.
Camila Giorgi began her title defence at the National Bank Open with a smacking of Emma Raducanu who had squandered plenty of chances in this one.
Raducanu was the player that broke first in the 2nd set as well but she once again dropped her serve in the very next game. Raducanu broke her once more but lost her serve once more. Both won their service games after that but Raducanu took a 4-3 lead once more but dropped her serve again for the 4-4 lead.
The British number one was beaten 7-6 (0) 6-2 by Camila Giorgi.
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The 19-year-old Brit was beaten 7-6 (7-0) 6-2 by the Italian world No 29, Camila Giorgi, who was tournament winner in Montreal last year.
Raducanu, who had failed to convert game point for a 5-3 lead in the opening set, broke Giorgi's first service game in the second to lead 2-0. World No 10 and ninth seed Raducanu was beaten 7-6 (7-0) 6-2 by the Italian world No 29, who was tournament winner in Montreal last year. The 19-year-old Brit was beaten 7-6 (7-0) 6-2 by the Italian world No 29, Camila Giorgi, who was tournament winner in Montreal last year
The ninth seed was making her debut at the WTA 1000 in her birth city of Toronto, and faced a tough test in defending champion Camila Giorgi. After a lengthy ...
She bounced back by taking a 2-0 lead in the second set, breaking the 30-year-old at the first opportunity, but Giorgi quickly took the momentum back and won four games in a row to take a set-and-a-break lead. It was the defending champion who was first to end the run of breaks once again, as she took a 5-4 lead to put herself within a game of taking the rollercoaster opener. Raducanu received a tough draw in her Toronto debut, coming up against the defending champion.
Emma Raducanu's US Open title defence preparations suffer another blow as she loses to Camila Giorgi in the National Bank Open first round.
I don't know what it was - maybe I ate too much before the match." "I was honestly a mess," said Andreescu. "I'm so sorry for my attitude. The two traded early breaks in the opening set before Raducanu saved a set point to force an eventual tie-break.
Emma Raducanu crashed out of the National Bank Open in Toronto in the first round after a straight sets defeat to defending champion Camila Giorgi.
Raducanu, who had failed to convert game point for a 5-3 lead in the opening set, broke Giorgi's first service game in the second to lead 2-0. But the 19-year-old Briton lost her way and failed to win a single point as Giorgi forced four mini-breaks to seize control and take the first set after an hour and 11 minutes. Both players lost serve three times in a hard-fought opening set before Raducanu dug deep to fend off set point in the 12th game to force a tie-break.
Emma Raducanu made a first-round exit at the National Bank Open in Toronto after losing in straight sets to defending champion Camila Giorgi.
The Italian earns two break points after a wayward Raducanu forehand and is back to parity the very next point. The Italian is continuing her aggression hitting a lot of her returns inside the baseline and that tactic is continuing to work well for her as it helps her win the next point for three break points... Raducanu is growing into this match, her return of serve is getting better with every service game of Giorgi and a great forehand off an Italian serve earns her a break point. Its purpose is to create a fluid to try and protect itself from the trauma and ultimately then it gets calloused and thick. She's down 0-15 early - thanks to a backhand into the net - and that's soon 0-30 as Giorgi creates pace from the back of the court, taking the ball on the rise and smacking it into the corner for a well-worked winner. At deuce a Giorgi forehand into the net gives Raducanu the advantage. Not sure where that confident service game came from from the Italian but it's come and means that once again Raducanu will have to serve to stay in the set. Raducanu is under pressure BUT a fine first serve gets the game back to deuce. From there the Italian plays one of her brutal forehand winners - she really doesn't hold back - to make it 5-0. There are too many unforced errors coming from the racket of Giorgi (22 in that first set). She's at 15-30 in this game when she slaps a forehand into the net under no pressure at all. That's nine points in a row for the Italian and it's looking as though Raducanu is leaving early from Toronto unless she can turn this around now, she has no time to spare. On paper, Raducanu should be beating a player of Giorgi's calibre, but based on her level of experience and wavering form she has understandably found it difficult to score wins.
The British number one was beaten 7-6 (0) 6-2 by Camila Giorgi.
But the 19-year-old Briton lost her way and failed to win a single point as Giorgi forced four mini-breaks to seize control and take the first set after an hour and 11 minutes. Both players lost serve three times in a hard-fought opening set before Raducanu dug deep to fend off set point in the 12th game to force a tie-break. The British teenager squandered chances to seize the initiative in either set and let slip a 2-0 lead in the second before bowing out in one hour and 49 minutes.
Emma Raducanu made a first-round exit at the National Bank Open in Toronto after losing in straight sets to defending champion Camila Giorgi.
Both players lost serve three times in a hard-fought opening set before Raducanu dug deep to fend off set point in the 12th game and force a tie-break. But Giorgi broke straight back and reeled off the next five games to set up a second-round clash with Belgium’s Elise Mertens. Raducanu lost in the Citi Open quarter-finals to Liudmila Samsonova in Washington last week and preparations for her US Open title defence later this month were dealt another blow in the city of her birth.
Defending champion Camila Giorgi defeated US Open champion Emma Raducanu in straight sets on Tuesday at the National Bank Open.
Zheng, however, continued to put pressure on Marino, trading holds of serve with the Canadian and holding her nerve in a topsy-turvy tiebreak to force a decider. The unseeded Estonian, who was leading 7-6(4), 3-0 before the Japanese superstar was forced to throw in the towel, will now face No. 8 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, whom she defeated earlier this year at the French Open. The World No. 29 found herself down a break three times in the opening set but was able to break back each time.
The 19-year-old, who was seeded ninth for the tournament, lost 7-6 6-2 to the defending champion. Raducanu had served for a 5-3 lead in the first ...
The Brit has also been unable to develop any sort of consistency and has changed her coaching team on a number of occasions across the past year. This points towards her inexperience on the tour and her lack of physicality compared to some of the other top players on the circuit. Raducanu had served for a 5-3 lead in the first set and was a break up in the second, but Giorgi claimed six games in a row to continue her impressive streak in Toronto.