{"id":153730,"date":"2025-09-19T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:22:08","slug":"raducanu-spurns-three-match-points-in-korea-defeat-but-gb-roll-on-in-bjk-cup-emma-raducanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153730\/","title":{"rendered":"Raducanu spurns three match points in Korea defeat but GB roll on in BJK Cup | Emma Raducanu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu was unable to take three match points as she faded to defeat against Barbora Krejcikova at the Korea Open. The British No 1 looked poised to set up a quarter-final against Iga Swiatek when she led by a set and 5-2 only for the former Wimbledon champion Krejcikova<\/a> to stage a fightback and claim a 4-6, 7-6 (10), 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Having decided to withdraw from Great Britain\u2019s team at the Billie Jean King Cup finals in order to take a wildcard into the WTA event in Seoul, Raducanu had hoped to produce a strong week, but the manner of this loss will hurt. She cut a despondent figure as the third set ran away from her and will go back to the practice court with her new coach, Francisco Roig, before heading to China.<\/p>\n

For more than two hours, it appeared Raducanu would come out on top, with the 22-year-old showing fighting spirit to recover from a break down in the opening set, clinching it when Krejcikova sent down one of 10 double faults.<\/p>\n

When Raducanu quickly recovered from dropping serve in the opening game of the second set, winning four games in a row, it seemed she was on her way to victory. But Krejcikova, who had made a series of poor errors, steadied and hit back, saving the first match point when Raducanu served for the match at 5-3.<\/p>\n

Krejcikova\u2019s revival should not have surprised her opponent given the Czech saved eight match points against Taylor Townsend<\/a> on her way to victory in the fourth round of the US Open, and Raducanu was unable to capitalise on a 5-2 lead in the tie-break and then two more match points.<\/p>\n

A double fault at 10-10 in the tie-break gave Krejcikova the advantage she needed, and Raducanu\u2019s resistance quickly ran out in the third set after she had missed two chances to break for 2-1.<\/p>\n

In her absence, meanwhile, the Great Britain team set up a semi-final against the United States in the Billie Jean King Cup with a 2-0 victory over Japan as Sonay Kartal and Katie Boulter both won their singles matches.<\/p>\n

Katie Boulter celebrates after defeating Japan\u2019s Moyuka Uchijima to put Great Britain into the Billie Jean King Cup semi-finals. Photograph: Andy Wong\/AP<\/p>\n

Kartal, who reached the fourth round at Wimbledon for the first time this year<\/a>, gave Britain the lead with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Ena Shibahara. Japan\u2019s hopes of salvaging the tie fell on the shoulders of Moyuka Uchijima but she was no match for Boulter, who wrapped up a comfortable 6-2, 6-1 victory in 68 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSonay put in a clinical performance so she makes it easy to follow,\u201d Boulter said. \u201cI stayed out there as much as possible and tried to focus on myself. I am super happy to be through and it is nice to have some British fans here. I am so pleased. This team qualified earlier in the year and we showed a lot of heart. The team deserves to be here and hopefully, we can go to the final. Hopefully, this is our time now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States, meanwhile, stayed on course for a record-extending 19th crown after Taylor Townsend and Jessica Pegula won the doubles decider to edge out Kazakhstan 2-1.<\/p>\n

The tie hung in the balance after American Emma Navarro had dramatically saved two match points to outlast Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6), only for an aggressive Elena Rybakina to level matters by dismantling world No 7 Pegula 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan, aiming for their first final appearance, then rolled the dice by selecting Rybakina and Putintseva for the decisive doubles clash. But the Americans, spearheaded by doubles world No 1 Townsend, had other plans when captain Lindsay Davenport teamed her up with Pegula, winning a second set tie-break to seal a 6-2, 7-6 (1) victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu was unable to take three match points as she faded to defeat against Barbora Krejcikova at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-153730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}