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<\/p>\nEmma Raducanu could face Katie Boulter in the second round of the Cincinnati Open, as both ramp up their preparations for the US Open.<\/p>\n
Raducanu, seeded No 30, has received a first-round bye and will meet British rival Boulter, providing she comes through her first-round clash with Serbian Olga Danilovic.<\/p>\n
Boulter holds a perfect head-to-head record against Raducanu, including a semi-final win on route to defending her Nottingham Open title in 2024.<\/p>\n
Both players are using the WTA 1000 event as a key warm-up for the final Grand Slam of the season, live on Sky Sports from August 24.<\/p>\n
Their potential path to the final could include clashes with top seeds such as defending champion Aryna Sabalenka, world No 2 Coco Gauff and No 3 Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n
Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion, is hoping to continue her recent resurgence and secure a seeded spot ahead of her return to Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n
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Watch highlights of the WTA match between Amanda Anisimova and Emma Raducanu at the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n
Her season highlights include a quarter-final run at the Miami Open, a round-of-16 finish at the Italian Open, and a last-eight showing at Queen’s Club.<\/p>\n
Raducanu also reached the semi-finals at the Citi Open following a third-round exit at Wimbledon to world No 1 Sabalenka.<\/p>\n
In the men’s draw, Britain’s Cameron Norrie received a first-round bye will face either Roberto Bautista Agut or Daniel Altmaier in round two.<\/p>\n
US Open announces record prize money <\/p>\n
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\n Jannik Sinner (L) defeated Taylor Fritz (R) to win the 2024 US Open title at Flushing Meadows<\/p>\n
The US Open has announced \u00a367m ($90m) in prize money will be on offer at this year’s final major, up from \u00a356m ($75m) in 2024.<\/p>\n
The men’s and women’s singles winners will earn \u00a33.7m ($5m), the largest champions’ payout.<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff, and 2024 US Open champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner were among the 20 players who signed a letter to the chiefs of the four Grand Slam events in March seeking more prize money.<\/p>\n
The players are in discussions with the other major tournaments – Wimbledon, French Open, and Australian Open – to secure a higher payout.<\/p>\n
At Wimbledon, where Sinner and Iga Swiatek were crowned champions in 2025, the prize money increased around seven per cent, with the singles champions receiving \u00a32.9m ($4m) apiece.<\/p>\n
Watch the US Open in New York live on Sky Sports from August 24 to September 7, 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 could face Katie Boulter in the second round of the Cincinnati Open, as both ramp up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-51330","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\/51330","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=51330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}