{"id":644353,"date":"2026-06-18T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:05:11","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-results-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644353\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Results & updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

British No.1 Emma Raducanu<\/a> and Katie Boulter<\/a> made winning starts to their HSBC Championships campaigns in front of the home crowd on the Andy Murray Arena.<\/p>\n

In the opening match of the day, Raducanu sealed a comfortable 6-0, 6-3 victory <\/a>over qualifier Anna Blinkova in an hour and four minutes.<\/p>\n

The British star lost just six points in a dominant opening set and, despite her opponent’s improved level in the second set, broke three times to complete the victory.<\/p>\n

It’s Raducanu’s first tour-level victory since Indian Wells in March, as the former quarter-finalist marches on to face Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n

World No.18 Cirstea came through a tough battle with Maddison Inglis 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to book a meeting with Raducanu. Their second round clash will be a repeat of the Transylvania Open final earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Boulter returned to court on Tuesday to complete her first-round clash against eighth seed and former US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez, sealing a comeback 3-6, 7-6(4), 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n

The match was suspended yesterday with Fernandez leading 6-3, 3-3 but it was Boulter who made the faster start when the match resumed. The Brit raised her level and reeled off the final four points in the second set tie-break to level the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

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Boulter carried that intensity into the decider – breaking immediately to surge into a 4-2 lead. While Fernandez fought back to level at 4-4, Boulter refused to let the match slip and produced a stunning forehand passing shot to seal the decisive break in the 11th game before consolidating to clinch the win over the world No.23<\/a>.<\/p>\n

23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams and Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko rounded off the action on the Andy Murray Arena as they teamed up to beat <\/a>Nicole Melichar-Martinez and <\/a>Erin Routliffe<\/a>\u00a0in their first round doubles match.<\/p>\n

It marked an emphatic return to professional tennis for Williams – who was competing in her first competitive match in almost four years – as the British, Canadian pair recorded a 7-6(2), 6-2 win over the third seeds.<\/p>\n

Sixth seed\u00a0Iva Jovic\u00a0is safely into the second round as well, defeating Croatian qualifier Antonia Ruzic 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

In the next round, she’ll face newly-crowned Lexus Birmingham Open champion Alexandra Eala, who extended her win streak to six matches after beating China\u2019s Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n

However, British No.4 Francesca Jones<\/a> lost out in her first round match to Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n

17-year-old Mika Stojsavljevic<\/a> lost on her Queen’s Club debut to 2024 Wimbledon semi-finalist Donna Vekic 6-2, 6-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Raducanu and Boulter later returned to the court for their first round doubles match, where they narrowly lost out to fourth seeds Zhang Shuai and Storm Hunter 6-4, 3-6, 10-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British No.1 Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter made winning starts to their HSBC Championships campaigns in front of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644353","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\/644353","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=644353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}