{"id":26756,"date":"2025-07-27T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26756\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:27:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-outclassed-by-anna-kalinskaya-in-washington-semi-final-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26756\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu outclassed by Anna Kalinskaya in Washington semi-final | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anna Kalinskaya outclassed Emma Raducanu<\/a> 6-4, 6-3 at the Washington Open to advance to the final, where she will face Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n

After a strong start from both players, Kalinskaya secured the first break to lead 5-4 and served out the opening set, handing Raducanu her first dropped set of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The two exchanged early breaks in the second set before the Russian pulled ahead once more, taking a lead that proved decisive and breaking again to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Having denied fans a rematch of the 2021 US Open final between Raducanu and Fernandez, Kalinskaya will now aim to capture her first WTA 500 title in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an interesting match. It\u2019s nice to play against Emma,\u201d world No 48 Kalinskaya said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of myself. I stayed aggressive and stuck to my plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernandez \u201cis such a fighter, she plays incredibly and never gives up. I played a tough battle against her a while ago. Tomorrow, I think it\u2019s going to be the same, and I\u2019m excited\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Fernandez came from a set down to defeat third seed Elena Rybakina 6-7(2), 7-6(3), 7-6(3) in a marathon battle marked by dominant serving from both players.<\/p>\n

Rybakina edged a tight first set, gaining the upper hand in the tiebreak with two clutch return winners.<\/p>\n

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Fernandez dropped her serve in the opening game of the second set, but Rybakina was unable to serve out the match at 5-4, allowing the Canadian to rally and level the contest by taking the second tiebreak.<\/p>\n

As in the opener, neither player dropped serve in the third set, but Fernandez grew in confidence and secured victory in three hours and 12 minutes to reach her first final of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Kalinskaya outclassed Emma Raducanu 6-4, 6-3 at the Washington Open to advance to the final, where she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-26756","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\/26756","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=26756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}