{"id":265874,"date":"2026-06-13T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:05:14","slug":"queens-2026-spirited-emma-raducanu-soars-into-home-final-in-london-will-face-donna-vekic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265874\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s 2026: Spirited Emma Raducanu soars into home final in London, will face Donna Vekic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> is one win away from her biggest title since that jaw-dropping triumph as a qualifier at the 2021 US Open.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Briton claimed two wins on Saturday (13 June) after inclement weather earlier in the week at Queen’s Club in London, including a stirring 6-2, 6-2 defeat of world No. 19 Iva Jovic in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Raducanu had beaten Kamila Rakhimova in a quarter-final match earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The home hope will meet an in-form Donna Vekic<\/a>, the Paris 2024<\/a> Olympic silver medallist in singles. Vekic won the first of two semis, knocking off another Brit in Katie Boulter with her own impressive performance, 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Vekic is an especially dangerous foe on the low-bouncing grass courts, and was a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve been improving with each match, which is usually how it goes on grass,” the Croatian said. “I love this surface, I love this city.”<\/p>\n

But the day belonged to Raducanu, the world No. 42 who hadn’t won a match on tour since early March before this week, battling injury and bringing back coach\u00a0Andrew Richardson, who had been at the helm during her 2021 US Open run.<\/p>\n

She played much like that Grand Slam-winning version of herself on Saturday, smacking 12 winners and breaking Jovic five times. The pace and depth of Raducanu’s groundstrokes was world-class throughout, and she didn’t let an early set-two charge from Jovic derail her.<\/p>\n

“It means everything to be doing it here in Queen’s in front of everyone,” a beaming Raducanu told the WTA 500-level crowd in Andy Murray Arena.<\/p>\n

“The support today was electric.”<\/p>\n

She added: “This week has been incredible. I’ve really enjoyed playing here and I think that shows in my tennis and how I’ve been able to compete and stick out some really tough moments. It means everything to make it to Sunday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu is one win away from her biggest title since that jaw-dropping triumph as a qualifier at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-265874","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\/265874","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=265874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}