{"id":408864,"date":"2026-02-05T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408864\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:27:13","slug":"emma-raducanu-avoids-transylvania-upset-with-spectacular-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408864\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu avoids Transylvania upset with spectacular comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> recovered from 5-0 down in the first set to beat Kaja Juvan<\/a> 7-5 6-1 and progress to the quarterfinals of the Transylvania Open.<\/p>\n

The number one seed, who is playing her first tournament since splitting from coach Francis Roig<\/a> in the wake of her early exit from the Australian Open, won a remarkable 10 straight games and 13 of the final 14 to avoid an embarrassing upset.<\/p>\n

– Raducanu wins first match after coach split<\/a><\/p>\n

Her Slovenian opponent stormed into a commanding lead with Raducanu seemingly surprised by the level of the world number 97 and appearing to be suffering some discomfort in her leg.<\/p>\n

She hit back to level the set before holding serve then breaking Juvan to edge it.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu battled back to bear Kaja Juvan at the Transylvania Open on Wednesday.\u00a0Horvath Tamas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Thereafter it was a more straightforward affair as she coasted to a straight-sets victory to set up a last-eight meeting with qualifier Maja Chwalinska<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Afterwards she said to the crowd in the Romanian city of Cluj: “Thank you for the support, it really got me through some tricky moments in that first set.<\/p>\n

“I have to say Kaja was playing some great tennis, was putting me on the back foot straightaway. I thought I was being aggressive, going for my shots, but I was missing and not executing.<\/p>\n

“At least I can say I was trying to play on my terms. That was the goal for me. I don’t think I’ve ever come back from 5-0 down before so that’s a first to add to the experience.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for staying and waiting so long, I appreciate it, it means a lot. Now I’ve got to try and recover straightaway.<\/p>\n

“It’s not much time but hopefully the schedule is kind to me and I can find some energy and hopefully I’ll see you guys out there and you’ll give me some energy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu recovered from 5-0 down in the first set to beat Kaja Juvan 7-5 6-1 and progress…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408864","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\/408864","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=408864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}