Raducanu has not secured a win over a top-10 player since beating Emma Navarro in March, losing eight matches in a row against elite opposition, but she appeared determined to stop the rot.<\/p>\n
But a series of delicious Pegula forehands saw the fifth seed break back and pile the pressure on Raducanu while down 4-3.<\/p>\n
However, moments later, Raducanu secured her second break of the first set. She took advantage when Pegula mis-hit a drop-shot at the net and the 22-year-old then blasted an angled forehand across court to put herself on the verge of a huge advantage.<\/p>\n
Raducanu sealed a gripping first set 6-3 with her mum, Renee, cheering on from the sidelines as she made a rare appearance to watch her daughter play in person.<\/p>\n
To be the first to receive the latest tennis news, join our WhatsApp community<\/a> or newsletter<\/a> <\/p>\n Pegula had lost 10 of her last 14 first sets and is well-equipped and making comebacks, but Raducanu maintained her form with two stunning forehands in the third game, en route to another early break.<\/p>\n The recent US Open semi-finalist proved to be no pushover and immediately broke right back from 30-0 down and the momentum appeared to swing in her favour before a gutsy hold of serve.<\/p>\n She won six points in a row, but in a match that featured plenty of twists and turns, Raducanu fought back to hold at 4-4.<\/p>\n Renee was on her feet as Emma pulled off a stunning backhand at 5-5, though she was unable to break the American, who closed the game with a stunning backhand winner down the line. Raducanu did hold comfortably, though, sending the second set to a tiebreak thanks to a pair of aces.<\/p>\n They traded mini-breaks in a scintillating tiebreak and both players produced strong groundstrokes against perfect defending, but the Brit could not get over the line despite having three match points.<\/p>\n Raducanu’s energy appeared sapped, similarly to her recent defeat to Barbora Krejcikova<\/a>, and Pegula raced into a 3-0 lead in the deciding set through two immediate breaks of serve.<\/p>\n The lead quickly stretched with another hold, and break, with Pegula finally serving out to clinch a 6-0 set win, bagelling Raducanu to secure a place in the fourth round.<\/p>\n She will face 23rd seed Maria Kostyuk in the last 16, paving the way for a potential quarter-final showdown with reigning Wimbledon<\/a> champion Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raducanu has not secured a win over a top-10 player since beating Emma Navarro in March, losing eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,85034,3270,35058,90430,90429,90431,88939,82,593,621],"class_list":["post-177684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china-open","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-jessica-pegula-family","tag-pegula-net-worth","tag-raducanu-china","tag-raducanu-mum","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177684","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=177684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}