Good things come to those who wait: Emma Raducanu made a long-awaited debut at the China Open on Saturday, and christened her first appearance in Beijing with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Spain’s Cristina Bucsa.<\/p>\n
Beijing:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n The former US Open champion has Chinese heritage through her mother, and was thrilled to comprehensively win her first main-draw match at the WTA 1000 in the country’s capital in 1 hour and 37 minutes. She dropped serve just once — saving seven of eight break points — to advance to a third-round match with No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n “Cristina was playing amazing … so I’m very happy to have gotten over it,” Raducanu said post-match, adding: “I really want to do well here.”<\/p>\n Some of the other notable facts and figures from Raducanu’s opening win included:<\/p>\n 3: Raducanu and Bucsa have played three times this year, and Raducanu has now won two in a row after losing a three-setter in Singapor at the start of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n 5: Raducanu served five aces as part of a generally strong serving performance. She won 71% of her first-serve points, and 50% of her second-serve points.<\/p>\n She also won five straight games from 3-3 in the first set to wrestle control of the momentum of the match.<\/p>\n 6: Six of Bucsa’s break-point chances against Raducanu’s serve came in the first set, and they all went unconverted. Four of those were in the first game, and two more game at 3-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n 14: Raducanu is now 14-3 against players ranked lower than No. 50 in the PIF WTA Rankings this year.<\/p>\n She has last won her first match at 14 consecutive tournaments, dating back to the BNP Paribas Open in March.<\/p>\n 15: While Bucsa landed 75% of her first serves — and 88% in the first set — Raducanu made her pay severely the few times she missed once. The Brit won 15 of 18 of the points played when the Spaniard hit a second serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good things come to those who wait: Emma Raducanu made a long-awaited debut at the China Open on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":{"0":"post-173347","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","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173347","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=173347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}