{"id":362232,"date":"2026-01-10T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:31:12","slug":"emma-raducanu-gets-over-79000-as-tennis-star-prepares-for-2026-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362232\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu gets over \u00a379,000 as tennis star prepares for 2026 Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has scooped over \u00a379,000 following her recent appearance at the United Cup, despite the 22-year-old failing to win her first match of 2026.<\/p>\n

The British tennis star fell to a three-sets defeat to Maria Sakkari on Monday as she continues her preparations for the Australian Open, which will commence later this month.<\/p>\n

Despite her failure to win her singles contest, the 2021 US Open champion has claimed a $100,000 (\u00a375,000) appearance fee following her outing in Australia.<\/p>\n

And with Great Britain beating Japan, she’s also scooped around $6000 (\u00a34474) via a team win bonus.<\/p>\n

That number would have been even greater but Great Britain were, in the end, dumped out by Greece after losing their tie 2-1.<\/p>\n

Raducanu will return to the court next week when the Hobart International commences.<\/p>\n

After that, however, she’ll be aiming to win a second major of her career at the 2026 Australian Open.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu has scooped over \u00a379,000 following her recent appearance at the United Cup, despite the 22-year-old failing to win her first match of 2026<\/p>\n

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Speaking after her defeat to Sakkari, Raducanu admitted that she was finding things ‘very difficult’ after barely playing during the off-season.<\/p>\n

“In my match, considering the circumstances, doubt whether I was going to play or not today, I’m pretty happy with how I was able to kind of play a match of three sets,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Considering I played five, six games in practice, it is a big effort for me.<\/p>\n

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“Really proud of how I kind of put myself out there, despite the scenario and situation.<\/p>\n

“Also playing against Maria, who was playing really, really well. She also has a match under her belt, big win against Naomi [Osaka].<\/p>\n

“To produce that level just by the circumstances, I have to be proud of even if it’s very difficult right now.”<\/p>\n

Elaborating further, she added: “I started hitting two weeks ago, so it’s been a good two and a bit months where I didn’t play.<\/p>\n

“I did fitness. [At the end of November] I was doing fitness, started that. It’s been difficult to kind of increase the load and add the unpredictability of the tennis.<\/p>\n

“I think being able to produce that, having not played, is just giving me confidence to what I can do when I do practice more. I know now I just need to get my head down, keep working.<\/p>\n

\"EmmaEmma Raducanu embraces Maria Sakkari at the net following her defeat at the United Cup over the weekend | GETTY<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long break for everyone. I think after my last match in Ningbo, it’s been a good three months.<\/p>\n

“Initially, you feel a little bit alien on the court, in the first set, just playing points again. Yeah, I just need to try and recover as best as I can, just keep working.<\/p>\n

“I think you have to just take it as it comes. I went to Barcelona for two weeks, but wasn’t really able to play. <\/p>\n

“Just good a lot of gym where I could, then started static hitting. I kind of played my first points two days ago in practice. It’s been a very fast run path.<\/p>\n

“I just need to keep going. The season is still very, very young. Week one. There’s a long way to go.”<\/p>\n

The 2026 Australian Open will have record prize money, giving players an even greater incentive as they look to etch their name into the history books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has scooped over \u00a379,000 following her recent appearance at the United Cup, despite the 22-year-old failing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[217,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-362232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362232","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=362232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}