{"id":528017,"date":"2026-03-09T03:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:34:08","slug":"emma-raducanu-indian-wells-52-minute-thrashing-for-briton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528017\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: Indian Wells 52-minute thrashing for Briton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Emma Raducanu was overpowered by sixth seed Amanda Anisimova at Indian Wells, losing 6-1 6-1 in a third-round encounter lasting only 52 minutes.<\/p>\n

In an ominous sign of the struggle to come, Raducanu was broken in the opening game.<\/p>\n

It quickly became apparent the 25th seed had no answer to the American’s determined approach, and the first set ran away from her with just 11 points won.<\/p>\n

The second immediately took on a similar pattern with Raducanu finding herself three games behind before managing to hold her serve.<\/p>\n

Having enlisted Mark Petchey as a temporary coach after parting with Francisco Roig in January, Raducanu last week said she had been hoping to rediscover her “natural way of playing”<\/a> in an attempt to build towards the form that saw her claim the 2021 US Open.<\/p>\n

But there was to be no reprieve, as Anisimova impressively took a further three games to progress.<\/p>\n

The performance marked a stark contrast to Raducanu’s second-round match,<\/a> a comprehensive 6-1 6-3 victory over Russian Anastasia Zakharova.<\/p>\n

Speaking on court afterwards, Anisimova said she had been “just trying to go out there and have fun” and “be fearless”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Emma Raducanu was overpowered by sixth seed Amanda Anisimova at Indian Wells, losing 6-1 6-1 in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-528017","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\/528017","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=528017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}