{"id":267322,"date":"2026-06-15T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:54:29","slug":"vekic-wins-queens-club-final-in-straight-sets-to-deny-dream-title-for-raducanu-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267322\/","title":{"rendered":"Vekic wins Queen\u2019s Club final in straight sets to deny dream title for Raducanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/emma-raducanu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> fell short of a dream title on home soil at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/queens-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queen\u2019s Club<\/a> 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 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Raducanu finished runner-up to Sorana Cirstea in Cluj-Napoca, her second final, in February.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Emma Raducanu fell short of a dream title on home soil at the Queen\u2019s Club after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-267322","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\/267322","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=267322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}