{"id":61034,"date":"2025-08-11T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:49:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-loses-advantage-against-aryna-sabalenka-tennis-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61034\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu loses ‘advantage’ against Aryna Sabalenka – Tennis – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu will attempt to defeat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> for the first time at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday with assistance from her new Spanish coach.<\/p>\n

The British No. 1<\/a>, who has received a bonus ahead of<\/a> the U.S. Open<\/a>, secured a rematch of their Wimbledon<\/a> encounter with a dominant victory over Olga Danilovic<\/a> in her debut match alongside her new coach, Francis Roig.<\/p>\n

During the third round at SW19 last month, Raducanu held a point to establish a 5-1 advantage in the second set beneath the Centre Court roof before falling 7-6, 6-4 to Sabalenka, who has made an odd demand ahead of their latest meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Raducanu has failed to claim a set from the current U.S. Open champion across their two prior encounters.<\/p>\n

Raducanu, who has climbed to world No. 34 in the live rankings while pursuing a seeding for New York<\/a>, explained: “I’m reasonable enough, and I guess honest enough with myself, to know that different surfaces favor different people, and where my game is at in comparison.<\/p>\n

“So, I think the grass gave me a bit of an advantage (against Sabalenka), but we’ll see how it goes.”<\/p>\n

Raducanu’s 6-3, 6-2 triumph over world No. 43 Danilovic extends her impressive 19-4 record against lower-ranked opponents during the past year.<\/p>\n

Her struggles have emerged against elite competition, prompting her to recruit Rafa Nadal’s former coach Roig as her eighth full-time mentor to bridge this divide.<\/p>\n

“When I play the really top players where I can’t run and scrap, wait on them to miss,” she acknowledged. “I think that’s where I need to improve.<\/p>\n

“And yeah, I’m hoping he can help me with that. There were four or five points (against Danilovic) where I did something that we were working on, and it’s always really satisfying and rewarding when you hit a shot and you’ve worked on it in practice.<\/p>\n

“So I think I’m going to improve a lot, hopefully doing the work day in, day out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu will attempt to defeat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka for the first time at the Cincinnati…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,49,48,11045,3270,34444,82,593,1706],"class_list":["post-61034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-masters","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-francis-roig","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61034","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=61034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}