{"id":189660,"date":"2025-10-10T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:42:09","slug":"clara-tauson-forced-to-withdraw-in-great-pain-against-paolini-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189660\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson forced to withdraw in great pain against Paolini in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clara Tauson withdrew from her match against Jasmine Paolini when she was down 6-3, 1-6, 1-5 in the 1\/8 final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Wuhan, China<\/p>\n

The Dane began brightly against the world number eight, Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, but was injured and ended up losing the round of 16.<\/p>\n

After winning the first set 6\u20133, Tauson<\/a> lost the second set 1\u20136 and then withdrew at 1\u20133 in the third set.<\/p>\n

The Dane fought her best despite being in great pain, but when she was broken in the decisive set, she saw no reason to continue.<\/p>\n

Tauson otherwise took control against the Italian in the first set and was successful in dictating the game, which allowed her to break serve at 2-1.<\/p>\n

22-year-old Tauson had to fend off a single break point before she increased her lead to 3-1, but she was completely superb in her own service games, winning 12 out of 13 points to close out the set 6-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Momentum then shifted at the start of the second set as Tauson seemed to struggle under the intense heat and was broken in three successive games. She received treatment at 1-4 for what seemed to be a groin injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dane returned with her thigh in bandages but was clearly hampered in her movements, as Paolini quickly wrapped up the set 6-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Tauson gave it a shot in the third set. She put a lot of effort into her strokes to get the duels decided quickly. It triggered several big winners, but also quite a few unforced errors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once the Italian gained the upper hand in the baseline duels, Tauson virtually gave up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paolini played her injured opponent smartly, and when she broke Tauson’s serve for 3-1, Tauson chose to withdraw.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson withdrew from her match against Jasmine Paolini when she was down 6-3, 1-6, 1-5 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-189660","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\/189660","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=189660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}