{"id":22101,"date":"2025-07-25T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22101\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:25:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-beats-naomi-osaka-at-citi-open-to-win-their-first-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22101\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu beats Naomi Osaka at Citi Open to win their first matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Emma Raducanu\u00a0dominated her first career matchup against\u00a0Naomi Osaka, winning the showdown at\u00a0the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.\u00a0on Thursday between past U.S. Open champions 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu, the only qualifier to claim a Grand Slam title when she did that in New York in 2021, saved the only two break points she faced and managed to break the big-serving Osaka three times.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka was hurt by seven double-faults. She won the U.S. Open and Australian Open twice each.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu, who is ranked 46th, will face Maria Sakkari in the quarterfinals. Sakkari eliminated No. 2 seed Emma Navarro on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams, the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, back on tour at age 45, was scheduled to face Magdalena Frech at night.<\/p>\n<p>Winners in men&#8217;s action Thursday at the hard-court tournament in Washington included No. 8 seed Daniil Medvedev and No. 14 seed Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Emma Raducanu\u00a0dominated her first career matchup against\u00a0Naomi Osaka, winning the showdown at\u00a0the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.\u00a0on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-22101","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\/22101","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=22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}