{"id":416086,"date":"2026-02-09T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416086\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:38:38","slug":"emma-raducanu-makes-admission-after-being-battered-in-first-tennis-final-for-nearly-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416086\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu makes admission after being battered in first tennis final for nearly five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has admitted she’ll be taking the positives from her recent run at the Transylvania Open final, despite being crushed by Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n

Cirstea won 6-0, 6-2 in Cluj while roared on by the Romanian crowd.<\/p>\n

Raducanu was a shadow of her usual self on the court, with the 23-year-old lacking energy after a gruelling semi-final 24 hours previously.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports, the Briton says she’ll be taking the positives from her run to the final – and also insisted she was happy with her performances this week, even if she came up short.<\/p>\n

“I’m really happy to have made progress this week and made the final,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It means a lot to me. It’s sad that today couldn’t go a bit better, but I think Sorana played incredibly from start to finish, and my energy was pretty low after my battle yesterday.<\/p>\n

“I’m really happy with the steps I made this week, and I think it’s moving in the right direction.”<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu has admitted she’ll be taking the positives from her recent run at the Transylvania Open final, despite being crushed by Sorana Cirstea<\/p>\n

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Raducanu’s run to the final came on the back of a disappointing Australian Open campaign.<\/p>\n

She made just the second round of that tournament before being sent packing by Anastasia Potapova.<\/p>\n

Raducanu added: “I didn’t really have much energy, and it was really difficult. Sorana played so well – I had no chance if I wasn’t 100 per cent, and even if I was 100 per cent, she was still playing incredible tennis. So all credit to her, she really deserves this one.”<\/p>\n

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Following her early exit from the Australian Open, Raducanu split with coach Francisco Roig.<\/p>\n

The pair had spent just six months together, with LTA coach Alexis Canter currently assisting the 2021 US Open champion.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s final was Raducanu’s first since her sensational victory over Leylah Fernandez that year.<\/p>\n

And the tennis star is happy with how her partnership with Canter has worked so far.<\/p>\n

She continued: “He’s been helping me, hitting with me, and he’s been around me through various different stages, very different game styles, and trying to just bring me back to myself – my game identity – playing in the way I want to.<\/p>\n

“I think this week was a good step in that direction. I’m really happy with how the week’s gone. I don’t know what I’ll be doing moving forward, but for now, this is working.<\/p>\n

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“I think it’s mainly about finding my style on the court, putting my imprint on it, and just letting it come from within.<\/p>\n

“I would say that I’m happier, but there’s still a long way to go – definitely steps in the right direction. I can’t go from zero to 100 straight away.”<\/p>\n

Raducanu is currently unsure whether she’ll play at next week’s Qatar Open in Doha.<\/p>\n

As things stand, she is due to lock horns with Camila Osorio in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has admitted she’ll be taking the positives from her recent run at the Transylvania Open final,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[217,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416086","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\/416086","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=416086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}