{"id":168033,"date":"2025-09-29T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168033\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:02:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-fails-to-take-match-points-in-defeat-by-jessica-pegula-at-china-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168033\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu fails to take match points in defeat by Jessica Pegula at China Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu again failed to take three match points as she was beaten 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 6-0 by Jessica Pegula in a hard-fought last-32 tie at the China Open.<\/p>\n

The British number one, who lost to Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> in similar fashion earlier this month, faded in a match that lasted two hours and 21 minutes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fellow Briton Sonay Kartal advanced to the round of 16 after beating Maya Joint in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Raducanu, ranked 32 in the world, took the first set against world number seven Pegula before both players wrestled for control in the second – the usually composed American giving a shout of frustration and throwing her racquet to the floor in the fifth game. <\/p>\n

Pegula went on to save two break points before a dramatic tie-break in which she saved three match points – two with backhand winners and the other on Raducanu’s serve – then dominated in the third set.<\/p>\n

“It was a crazy match, ” said Pegula, who will meet Marta Kostyuk in the last 16 after she beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4 6-2.<\/p>\n

“That was really intense. I got myself back into the tie-break and just wanted to keep the pressure on.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, I think I got a little bit lucky on two of those where I hit those two backhand winners but, other than that I just tried to keep fighting for as long as I could.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu again failed to take three match points as she was beaten 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 6-0 by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}