Emma Raducanu suffered a heavy defeat in just 52 minutes to Amanda Anisimova in the third round at Indian Wells. The British No 1 was well below par in a 6-1 6-1 loss to the American world No 6.<\/p>\n
Raducanu, seeded 25, may have been struggling with a fitness issue as she repeatedly refused to chase down drop shots. The 23-year-old\u2019s first serve misfired badly and she hit just two winners to her opponent\u2019s 21.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I can be very pleased with my performance today,\u201d Anisimova said in her on-court interview. \u201cI had a tough first round so just went out to be fearless. I wanted to enjoy it and wanted to keep the run going.\u201d<\/p>\n
The top seed, Aryna Sabalenka, eased into the last 16 with a 6-4 6-1 win over Romania\u2019s Jaqueline Cristian. She will meet Naomi Osaka, who needed all three sets to get past Camila Osorio of Colombia 6-1 3-6 6-1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only say that I tried to be more positive,\u201d said Osaka of the third set. \u201cI feel like the second set I was complaining a lot and then I just kind of thought my daughter could be watching me mope around the court. So I needed to pick up my attitude and that\u2019s kind of what I did in the third.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s draw, the second seed, Jannik Sinner, needed just 71 minutes to book his place in the last 16 with a 6-3 6-2 win over Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very tough second match for me,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cHe\u2019s a very high quality player \u2026 he had great wins in the past so I\u2019m very happy about today\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fourth seed, Alexander Zverev, was made to work harder before beating Brandon Nakashima 7-6 5-7 6-4 in just over two and a half hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe played a fantastic match today,\u201d Zverev said of Nakashima, who had 17 aces to Zverev\u2019s 15. \u201cHe served like I have never seen before. He was hitting his spots well. Every ace was more or less on the line for him, so I\u2019ve got to give credit to him. He played a great match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu suffered a heavy defeat in just 52 minutes to Amanda Anisimova in the third round at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-528332","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\/528332","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=528332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}