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<\/p>\nEmma Raducanu could face four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the second round of the Washington Open if the pair win their opening matches.<\/p>\n
Raducanu is playing for the first time since her agonising third-round Wimbledon defeat to Aryna Sabalenka and will play Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk in the first round, which begins on Monday – live on Sky Sports Tennis.<\/p>\n
Fellow Brit Katie Boulter has a tough draw against Greece’s Maria Sakkari, then would play second seed Emma Navarro in the next round.<\/p>\n
Raducanu and Boulter are in line to meet in the quarter-finals, should they reach that stage of the WTA 500 tournament, and are building up to the final Grand Slam of the year – the US Open, which is live on Sky Sports from August 24 to September 7.<\/p>\n
The top four seeds – Jessica Pegula, Navarro, Elena Rybakina and Clara Tauson – have received a bye to the second round.<\/p>\n
Venus Williams is back on the tour after 16 months out of the sport and has accepted a wild card for the Washington Open.<\/p>\n
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\n Venus Williams has accepted a wild-card invitation to play singles in Washington<\/p>\n
Williams, the older sister of 23-Grand Slam winner Serena, will play compatriot Peyton Stearn in her first match since March 2024.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old won seven Grand Slam titles between 2000 and 2008, five of which came at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Paula Badosa will not defend her Washington Open title due to a lower back injury.<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Evans and Norrie lead British men’s hopes<\/p>\n Dan Evans has also been given a wild card after winning the 2023 Washington event and will play Belgium’s Zizou Bergs in the first round.<\/p>\n Evans is back in the top 150 on the ATP rankings after re-finding some good form on the grass, despite being thrashed by Novak Djokovic in the second round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Cameron Norrie made the quarter-finals at the All England Club and will play a qualifier in Washington, before facing second seed Lorenzo Musetti if he wins.<\/p>\n Taylor Fritz, Cam Norrie, Jamie Murray, Jodie Burrage and more stars from the ATP and WTA Tours take on the British Ice-Cream Taste Test<\/p>\n The men’s draw features 48 players, compared to the women which has 28, so the top 16 seeds, led by Taylor Fritz, get a bye into the second round.<\/p>\n Holger Rune, Ben Shelton, Andrey Rublev, Frances Tiafoe, Alex de Minaur and Daniil Medvedev make up the top eight of those seeds along with Musetti and Fritz.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/p>\n This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, as well as the US Open in New York, live on Sky Sports in 2025 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 four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the second round of the Washington Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-9177","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\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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