Emma Raducanu is into the semifinals in Romania\u00a0Horvath Tamas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu<\/a> bossed her way into the semifinals of the Transylvania Open in Cluj.<\/p>\n The top seed showed her class with a straight-sets demolition of Poland’s Maja Chwalinska<\/a>, winning a one-sided quarterfinal 6-0, 6-4.<\/p>\n She moves into her fourth career semifinal and will face world No. 91 Oleksandra Oliynykova<\/a> as she moves closer to winning her first tournament since the incredible success at the U.S. Open in 2021.<\/p>\n Raducanu certainly played like a champion in waiting in Romania, barely giving her opponent a sniff, with a dominant, attacking display.<\/p>\n Indeed, the Pole, who came through qualifying, won just seven points in the first set as Raducanu served a bagel.<\/p>\n The second set was more evenly contested, with Chwalinska finally getting on the board with a service hold to love.<\/p>\n The decisive moment came at 3-3, though, when a Chwalinska double fault handed Raducanu the break and she was able to serve it out from there.<\/p>\n Lurking in other side of the draw is Anastasia Potapova<\/a>, who beat Raducanu in the second round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n – Emma Raducanu splits from coach Francis Roig after just six months<\/a> “I’m very happy with my performance today,” Raducanu said in her on-court interview. “I think I played a great match from the beginning and really pleased I could get off to that start.<\/p>\n “As always, there’s going to be some moments of adversity that you need to overcome, and I did that well in the second set.<\/p>\n “So really proud of how I did that. And Maya’s a really tricky opponent, moves incredibly well, has great hand skills, so she’s done a great job this week, qualifying and coming all the way here.<\/p>\n “So [I’m] really pleased to have overcome that challenge.<\/p>\n “I didn’t have much time last night to kind of get ready for this one. I’m just really focusing on recovery. Because each match, no matter the scoreline, it takes a lot out of you just to be so focused for however long it takes.<\/p>\n “So yeah, [I] need to just recover.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu is into the semifinals in Romania\u00a0Horvath Tamas\/Getty Images Emma Raducanu bossed her way into the semifinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410468","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\/410468","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=410468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Emma Raducanu superfan ejected by police at Australian Open<\/a><\/p>\n