{"id":371269,"date":"2026-01-15T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:55:08","slug":"hobart-international-emma-raducanu-loses-to-taylah-preston-in-quarter-finals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371269\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobart International: Emma Raducanu loses to Taylah Preston in quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu’s Australian Open preparations suffered a blow as she was stunned by world number 204 Taylah Preston at the Hobart International.<\/p>\n

British number one Raducanu was the top seed at the event – her final one before the first Grand Slam of the year begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n

However, she will travel to Melbourne with just one win under her belt<\/a> after a 6-2 6-4 quarter-final defeat by Australia’s Preston.<\/p>\n

Raducanu was particularly inconsistent on serve, committing four double faults and holding in only three of her nine service games.<\/p>\n

She was twice a break up in both sets, but could not press home her advantage in another rain-affected match.<\/p>\n

After going 4-2 down in the opening set, coach Francisco Roig could be heard urging her to “let it rip” and “don’t be static”.<\/p>\n

However, she could not serve to stay in the set, planting a backhand into the net to give her opponent the lead.<\/p>\n

Raducanu struggled again at the start of the second set, remarking to Roig that Preston’s shots were coming at her “so fast”, but she managed to establish a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

However, she lost her next three service games in a row as Preston advanced to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu’s Australian Open preparations suffered a blow as she was stunned by world number 204 Taylah Preston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371269","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=371269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}