{"id":191104,"date":"2025-10-05T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191104\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:48:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-british-no-1-in-line-to-face-jessica-pegula-again-following-tough-wuhan-open-draw-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191104\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: British No 1 in line to face Jessica Pegula again following tough Wuhan Open draw | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu is in line to face Jessica Pegula again after being handed a tough Wuhan Open draw, which includes world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n

British No 1 Raducanu opens her campaign at the WTA 1000 event against American Ann Li, the American world No 47.<\/p>\n

She then faces a potential clash with No 9 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova or Canadian Open champion Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n

Raducanu could then get a shot at revenge against Pegula having blown three match points in the second set tie-break against the world No 7 at the China Open in Beijing last week. She then collapsed as the eventual semi-finalist raced through the decider, winning 3-6 7-6 (11-9) 6-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n Wuhan 1000 projected quarter-finals\n <\/p>\n

[1] Sabalenka vs [8] Rybakina<\/p>\n

[6] Pegula or Raducanu vs [4] Anisimova<\/p>\n

[3] Gauff vs [5] Andreeva<\/p>\n

[7] Paolini vs [2] Swiatek<\/p>\n

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\"Highlights<\/p>\n

Highlights of the clash between Raducanu and Jessica Pegula at the China Open<\/p>\n

World No 32 Raducanu also blew three match points against Barbora Krejcikova at last month’s Korea Open.<\/p>\n

Fourth seed Amanda Anisimova is a potential quarter-final opponent.<\/p>\n

Ahead of her tournament debut, Raducanu said: “Yeah, I think it was hard for me. The last two matches that I lost, I had match points in both. And it’s not something that’s really happened to me before and then to happen twice in a week was pretty new to get my head around.<\/p>\n

“I think the second match I found it easier to get over than the first because I know I was playing some better tennis and just improving with my level.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I didn’t take too long to kind of dwell on it and just got straight back to work and trying to get ready as best as possible for this week.<\/p>\n

“I do feel like I’m improving and making progress. I still see the differences in where I want to go but I know I’m doing good work day to day to try and get there.”<\/p>\n

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\"Martina<\/p>\n

Martina Navratilova answers the Sky Sports viewers\u2019 questions, including how Raducanu might play with her new coach and comparing different eras in the history of tennis?<\/p>\n

Raducanu has been picking up momentum during the hard court swing – having reached the semi-finals at the Citi Open and third round at the US Open and National Bank Open.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old is the only British player already confirmed for the main draw of the WTA 1000 event, with Katie Boulter beaten 3-6 6-4 6-1 by Viktoriya Tomova in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Sonay Kartal has opted out of the event following her brilliant run to the quarter-finals of the China Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year’s main draw singles action will begin on Monday, October 6 and will run through to Sunday, October 12.<\/p>\n

The Wuhan Open is a prime opportunity for Raducanu to add some extra points to her ranking and boost her chances of being seeded at next year’s Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini and Coco Gauff are the top seeds at the prestigious tournament in China.<\/p>\n

Watch the ATP and WTA Tour, live on Sky Sports or stream with NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu is in line to face Jessica Pegula again after being handed a tough Wuhan Open draw,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-191104","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\/191104","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=191104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}