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<\/p>\nBritish No 1 Emma Raducanu crashed out in the third round of the China Open after suffering an agonising 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 0-6 loss to American Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n
Pegula saved three match points in the second-set tie-break as she dug deep to complete a stunning comeback, racing through the deciding set to book her place in the last 16.<\/p>\n
Raducanu made a strong start to the match, winning the first set and leading that crucial tie-break 5-2, but she then failed to take her chances and Pegula capitalised.<\/p>\n
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\n Raducanu shakes hands with Pegula after the match<\/p>\n
Having received a bye through the opening round, Raducanu began the tournament with Saturday’s straight-sets win over Cristina Bucsa.<\/p>\n
This promised to be a far tougher assignment but the 22-year-old Briton seized the initiative with an immediate break of serve and looked assured for long periods.<\/p>\n
Amid some ferocious hitting, Raducanu blasted a backhand winner to bring up set point before completing the job in style with a fine forehand from inside the baseline.<\/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> Since beating Emma Navarro in the Miami Open in March, Raducanu had lost eight matches in a row against top-10 players.<\/p>\n Fifth seed Pegula offered greater resistance in a tighter second set but was forced to battle back from the brink of defeat to force a decider.<\/p>\n World No 32 Raducanu, watched by her Chinese mother, appeared to have played two of her three match points perfectly but they – and ultimately the tense tie-break – somehow went the way of her opponent.<\/p>\n Image: Momentum quickly shifted in favour of 31-year-old American Pegula as Raducanu’s display drastically dropped off.<\/p>\n The 2024 US Open runner-up cruised through the final set and will face 23rd seed Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine in the next round after securing progression in two hours and 21 minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was a crazy match,\u201d Pegula said after her victory.<\/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> \u201cIt was a lot of fun. The tie-break was intense, but I got myself back in and kept the pressure on. When she [Raducanu] hit the double fault, I knew I was still playing some good tennis and it was right there. I got a little lucky with my two backhand winners.<\/p>\n \u201cOther than that I tried to keep fighting for as long as I could. The crowd was awesome, this court has been good to me and I\u2019m excited to play here. I\u2019m happy I got through tonight and I\u2019ll try to rest and recover.”<\/p>\n British interest in the tournament now rests on the shoulders of Sonay Kartal.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old, ranked 81st in the world, triumphed 6-3 6-2 against Australian Maya Joint to set up a last-16 meeting with world No 5 Mirra Andreeva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British No 1 Emma Raducanu crashed out in the third round of the China Open after suffering an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168191","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\/168191","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=168191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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