{"id":266607,"date":"2026-06-14T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:40:43","slug":"donna-vekic-wins-queens-club-final-in-straight-sets-to-deny-emma-raducanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266607\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Vekic wins Queen&#8217;s Club final in straight sets to deny Emma Raducanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Emma Raducanu fell short of a dream title on home soil at the Queen\u2019s Club after Croatian lucky loser Donna Vekic won the final 6-0, 7-6 (6) in London on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Raducanu was looking for her first singles trophy since her stunning win as a qualifier at the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-tennis-championships-sports-new-york-serena-williams-emma-raducanu-7cad95b0400651b031c48cf22dcf3539\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021 U.S. Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The British No. 1 was swiftly beaten in the first set but saved three championship points in the second on the way to a tiebreaker, where she saved another and came close to taking it to a deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>Rain earlier in the tournament resulted in Raducanu having to power through a two-match day on Saturday, beating Kamilla Rakhimova then American Iva Jovic to reach the first grass-court and third tour-level final of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu finished runner-up to Sorana Cirstea in Cluj-Napoca, her second final, in February.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Emma Raducanu fell short of a dream title on home soil at the Queen\u2019s Club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[102926,101226,102772,4043,9,24,63,122,124,123,102321,319,15547,103116],"class_list":["post-266607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-donna-vekic","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-kamilla-rakhimova","tag-london","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266607","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=266607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}