English tennis star Emma Raducanu has earned a significant seeding advantage for Wimbledon, all thanks to her impressive run to the Queen\u2019s Club final. Raducanu is now in line for a top 32 seeding, which could hand her a more favorable draw at her home Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
Raducanu began her Queen\u2019s Club campaign from the Round of 32 and reached the final without dropping a single set. First, she took on Anna Blinkova and got a 6-0, 6-3 win, followed by a 6-4, 6-2 win against Romania\u2019s Sorana C\u00eerstea. She then defeated Kamilla Rakhimova in the quarterfinals, 6-3, 7-5, and just a few hours later, beat America\u2019s Iva Jovi\u0107 in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2, in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
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Emma Raducanu will now take on Croatia\u2019s Donna Veki\u0107, who beat local favorite Katie Boulter in straight sets in the semifinals, for the title on Sunday.<\/p>\n
As the Brit prepares for her third tour-level final, her run at the Queen\u2019s Club until now has already boosted her seeding prospects for Wimbledon, with Raducanu rising to a live<\/a> ranking of No. 31. This puts her in line to secure a seeded spot at the upcoming Grand Slam, which could help her avoid facing tougher opponents in the early rounds.<\/p>\n Winning today\u2019s final will also hugely benefit the Brit by moving her into the world\u2019s top 30 ahead of Wimbledon. Still, if she decides to show up at the Nottingham Open as a wild card entrant, she can climb even higher in the rankings with a deep run.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu Talks About Being Proud of Making it to the Queen\u2019s Finals<\/p>\n After defeating Iva Jovi\u0107 in straight sets in the semifinals, Emma Raducanu sat down for a press meet<\/a> where she thanked the people of London for their support and expressed joy and pride at having made it to the finals:<\/p>\n \u201cIt means everything to be making the final here and to be making it at home in London. I love London; it\u2019s my home, it\u2019s where I grew up, it\u2019s everything to me, so to be receiving the amount of support that I do here its very emotional, and yeah, I\u2019m just really proud of myself,\u201d she said (0:35).<\/p>\n With her semifinal win, Raducanu has become the first English female tennis player to have reached the Queen\u2019s Club singles finals in 56 years.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n \u201cJannik Sinner Is Very Thin\u201d \u2013 Kim Clijsters Tells World No. 1 To \u2018Eat More\u2019 To Solve Fitness Problems After Paris Debacle<\/a><\/p>\n Madison Keys Teases Anxious Men\u2019s Players For Ruining the Locker Room Vibe With French Open Panic<\/a><\/p>\n College Sports Network has you covered with the latest news, analysis, insights, and trending stories in tennis<\/a>, college football<\/a>, men\u2019s college basketball<\/a>, women\u2019s college basketball<\/a>, and college baseball!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English tennis star Emma Raducanu has earned a significant seeding advantage for Wimbledon, all thanks to her impressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[101226,9,24,63,21130,122,124,123,101228,103152,98861],"class_list":["post-266715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens-club","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-raducanu","tag-straight-sets","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266715","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=266715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}