{"id":199606,"date":"2025-10-14T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:47:07","slug":"ningbo-open-emma-raducanu-loses-to-zhu-lin-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199606\/","title":{"rendered":"Ningbo Open: Emma Raducanu loses to Zhu Lin in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu has two tournaments &#8211; the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the Hong Kong Open &#8211; left on her schedule this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Francis Roig, who has an agreement to coach Raducanu until the end of the season, is not with her in Ningbo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu has played 50 matches on the WTA Tour this year, the most since her breakthrough US Open triumph in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The physical demands may be starting to show, with Raducanu&#8217;s movement falling away as former top-40 player Zhu extended the rallies to keep her on court for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu won only 51% of points on her first serve and 38% on her second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She raced into a 3-0 lead and served out the opening set despite four breaks of serve in the final five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She and Zhu exchanged breaks early in the second set before Raducanu asked for the physio. She left the court after Zhu forced a decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu grabbed at her back early in the third set after running for a forehand, and she made more errors as the match went on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhu faces Russian top seed Mirra Andreeva in the last 16 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raducanu has two tournaments &#8211; the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the Hong Kong Open &#8211; left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199606","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\/199606","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=199606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}