{"id":461408,"date":"2026-02-06T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:20:10","slug":"emma-raducanu-storms-into-cluj-semi-finals-with-win-over-maja-chwalinska-sonay-kartal-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461408\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu storms into Cluj semi-finals with win over Maja Chwalinska, Sonay Kartal beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top seed Raducanu has now won her first three matches since splitting with coach Francis Roig after a lacklustre second-round exit at January&#8217;s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is now into a first semi-final since the Washington Open in July and victory will see her reach a first final since the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu will next face Ukraine&#8217;s Oleksandra Oliynykova, who claimed her first top-50 win against Chinese fourth seed Wang Xinyu to reach a first WTA Tour semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With temporary tattoos of bats across her face &#8211; a nod to Transylvania&#8217;s folklore and nature &#8211; Oliynykova saved 21 out of 23 break points against Wang to win 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Boulter also triumphed on Thursday, beating Czech Linda Fruhvirtova 6-3 6-2 to reach the Ostrava Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a first semi-final appearance for the 29-year-old Briton since she won the Paris Challenger title in May last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After struggling for consistency throughout 2025, Boulter split with long-term coach Biljana Veselinovic and hired Michael Joyce to help her freshen up her game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will face American world number 96 Katie Volynets for a place in the final in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seed Raducanu has now won her first three matches since splitting with coach Francis Roig after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-461408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}