{"id":265613,"date":"2026-06-13T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:12:17","slug":"emma-raducanu-battles-into-queens-semi-finals-despite-injury-scare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265613\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu battles into Queen\u2019s semi-finals despite injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> shrugged off a \u201ctough\u201d injury scare as she battled into the Queen\u2019s Championships semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The British No 1 beat Uzbekistan\u2019s Kamilla Rakhimova 6-3 7-5 in a match delayed by a day after heavy rain in west London.<\/p>\n

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It means she will have to play her semi-final, against American teenager Iva Jovic, later on Saturday.<\/p>\n

She needed three match points to see off Russian-born world No 78 Rakhimova in a tense service game, screaming with delight as she booked her place in the last four.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old said: \u201cIt was a match of ups and downs, I\u2019m really grateful for the support I had in some really tough moments, and closing out that second set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both she and Katie Boulter reached the semi-finals in a strong week for British tennis, Boulter sealing her biggest win by ranking<\/a>, over world No 2 and Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina,<\/a> late on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Raducanu said: \u201cI think it\u2019s incredible. We all love playing on the grass, and it shows, me and Katie are in the semis and we play doubles here as well. It\u2019s great to see and great for the tournament. Really wishing her well and hoping I can do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Boulter could not guarantee a British finalist as – perhaps struggling after a mammoth day on Friday, in which she had to play two matches – she fell 6-1 6-3 to Croatia\u2019s Donna Vekic.<\/p>\n

Raducanu\u2019s quarter-final was briefly interrupted by the King\u2019s birthday flypast and also by a medical timeout when she was up a set and a break in the second set and slipped on the grass, which has caused problems for several players this week, with Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko out for the rest of the grass-court season after falling earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Raducanu returned to the court with strapping on her left thigh, which she later removed, and initially struggled to shake off the fear and nerves of slipping again.<\/p>\n

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She said: \u201cRight now it\u2019s a mix of adrenaline. It was tough to take that, I felt like I was in a pretty good spot in the match. On grass these things can happen. I found it pretty tough to regroup but I\u2019m really proud of how I did that with the help of you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Raducanu<\/p>\n

Raducanu thanked the partisan home crowd for their support after a tricky second set (Getty)<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, who missed two and a half months of tennis with a post-viral illness earlier this season, has bounced back from a disappointing first-round exit at the French Open to match her best WTA Tour-level result on grass. It also matched her career-best result at a WTA 500 event, her semi-final run at Washington 2025.<\/p>\n

Raducanu opened with an ace, then dug herself out of trouble after three double-faults to hold her serve, before breaking her opponent\u2019s at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n

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Rakhimova broke back immediately, then brought the set level at two games apiece.<\/p>\n

Raducanu was up 40-0 in the fifth game when it was paused for about five minutes for the flypast, as a series of aircraft thundered overhead. The serving Briton initially looked baffled then started to smile, breaking into a laugh along with the crowd as her serve was interrupted once again.<\/p>\n

The confusion continued, the umpire at one point having informed those curious that \u201cit\u2019s definitely going to be the Red Arrows at some point\u201d but it was unclear when.<\/p>\n

They finally did appear, Raducanu now fully embracing the spectacle as she pointed to the planes whizzing overhead before \u2013 finally \u2013 getting to serve and holding Rakhimova to love.<\/p>\n

\"She<\/p>\n

She slipped awkwardly at 3-1 up but shrugged off the injury following a medical timeout (PA)<\/p>\n

She was up a break after the next game, and there was another hold to love to secure the first set.<\/p>\n

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Whatever unsteadiness had plagued the Briton to begin the match had faded away by the second, going up a break immediately. Raducanu was leading the second set 3-1 when, after securing the first point of the fifth game, she slipped behind the baseline, initially carrying on but, after Rakhimova reduced the deficit to one, called for a medical time out.<\/p>\n

She returned with substantial strapping on her left thigh, saving three break points before a double-fault opened up a window for her opponent \u2013 and Rakhimova took advantage to bring the set back level.<\/p>\n

The wrapping came off Raducanu\u2019s thigh with Rakhimova leading 4-3, the Briton quickly held to love to bring the match back level, then battled through a difficult ninth game to go up a break.<\/p>\n

The pair exchanged breaks, and resilient Rakhimova fended off two match points before Raducanu \u2013 who bowed out in the quarter-finals in 2025 \u2013 was finally able to secure her place in the last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu shrugged off a \u201ctough\u201d injury scare as she battled into the Queen\u2019s Championships semi-finals on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[101226,102772,100829,102873,9,24,63,122,124,123,101228],"class_list":["post-265613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-kamilla-rakhimova","tag-katie-boulter","tag-match-points","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-raducanu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265613","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=265613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}