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 the aircraft above.<\/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
“It was insane,” Raducanu told the BBC. “I couldn’t play with that. I was distracted and in awe of what was going on, and I think the crowd loved it, too.<\/p>\n
After slipping on the grass while changing direction in the fifth game of the second set, Raducanu went off for treatment.<\/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, having now removed the strapping, regained her form to break Rakhimova’s serve and lead 5-4, but could not seal victory on her serve.<\/p>\n
However, she broke the Russian-born Uzbek again and finally clinched her place in the semi-finals with her third match point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raducanu achieved her first win against a top-20 opponent in over a year by beating Romanian world number…\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-265622","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\/265622","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=265622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265622\/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=265622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}