Emma Raducanu overcame an injury scare to beat Kamilla Rakhimova 6-3 7-5 and join fellow Briton Katie Boulter in the Queen’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n
The British number one had to go off court for medical treatment in the second set after slipping while attempting to change direction on the grass.<\/p>\n
Returning to Andy Murray Arena with her left thigh strapped up, Raducanu lost her serve as she struggled to regain the momentum she had before her fall.<\/p>\n
With Raducanu’s coaching team loudly encouraging her, the 2021 US Open champion had to dig deep as her opponent sought to take advantage.<\/p>\n
The Briton regained her form to break Rakhimova’s serve and lead 5-4, but could not seal victory on her serve as the Russian-born Uzbek fought back.<\/p>\n
However, she broke Rakhimova again and finally clinched her place in the semi-finals with her third match point.<\/p>\n
“It was really tricky, she played some incredible tennis and got a lot of balls back,” Raducanu told BBC TV. “It was an up-and-down match and I’m really grateful for the support I had in some tough moments.<\/p>\n
“It was tough to take the fall, I was in a good spot in the match and I found it tough to regroup, but I am proud how I did that with the help of you guys here.<\/p>\n
“It’s incredible for British tennis to have two semi-finalists and is a great achievement. It’s great to see and I’m wishing Katie well.”<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old will return later on Saturday to face American teenager Iva Jovic for a place in Sunday’s final, while Boulter takes on Croatia’s Donna Vekic.<\/p>\n
Raducanu achieved her first win against a top-20 opponent in over a year by beating Romanian world number 18 Sorana Cirstea on Friday, but was unable to start her quarter-final last night.<\/p>\n
Having dropped her serve in the third game against Rakhimova, Raducanu took control of the match after play was interrupted in bizarre circumstances.<\/p>\n
Attempting to serve out at 40-0, Raducanu was forced to delay her serve several times because of the noise of military aircraft taking part in the King’s Trooping the Colour flypast in central London.<\/p>\n
Once the Red Arrows had flown over the west London club, Raducanu wrapped up the service game and powered through the rest of the first set.<\/p>\n
She has yet to lose a set in the tournament but now faces the prospect of having to win two matches in a day to continue her excellent run this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu overcame an injury scare to beat Kamilla Rakhimova 6-3 7-5 and join fellow Briton Katie Boulter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-265519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}