{"id":171267,"date":"2025-09-30T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171267\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:15:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-told-her-locker-room-rivals-will-be-talking-about-her-unusual-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171267\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu told her locker room rivals will be talking about her &#8216;unusual&#8217; pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former British No 1 Annabel Croft has warned Emma Raducanu that her WTA Tour rivals will capitalise if she does not overcome a worrying pattern from her last two losses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu<\/a> lost 6-3, 6-7(9), 0-6 to world No 7 Jessica Pegula in the third round of the China Open after being up a set and a break and having three match points in the second set tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 32\u2019s campaign at the WTA 250 event in Seoul ended in very similar circumstances as she fell 6-4, 6-7(10), 1-6 to Barbora Krejcikova in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Against Krejcikova, the Brit led by a set and 5-2 and was unable to convert a match point when serving for the match at 5-4, before letting a further two match points slip away in a tense tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Raducanu\u2019s loss to Pegula at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing, Croft commented on the trend and also expressed concern that her compatriot had lost to a top 10 player again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to sit and talk about it because you don\u2019t want patterns emerging like this and then players talking about it and sussing it out in the locker room,\u201d the former world No 24 told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Raducanu News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-biggest-problem-exposed-jessica-pegular-defeat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu\u2019s biggest problem exposed again \u2013 but the agony could have a twist very soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/what-prize-money-ranking-points-did-emma-raducanu-win-china-open-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What prize money and ranking points did Emma Raducanu win at the China Open?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers do tend to have patterns that emerge, she\u2019s not unique in that sense. I just think it\u2019s unusual to have two matches like she\u2019s had and to have three match points and not convert is very unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a shame because she\u2019s played so well, but she\u2019s let it get away from her far too quickly. And worryingly, it\u2019s another loss against a top 10 player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After her victory against Raducanu, Pegula said: \u201cThat was a crazy match. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tiebreak 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<p>\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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu will next compete at the WTA 1000 tournament in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wuhan-open-seeds-draw-date-prize-money-ranking-points-sabalenka-swiatek-gauff-raducanu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wuhan Open seeds, draw date, prize money, ranking points: Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff, Raducanu in action<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British No 1 Annabel Croft has warned Emma Raducanu that her WTA Tour rivals will capitalise if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-171267","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\/171267","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=171267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}