{"id":166171,"date":"2025-09-18T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166171\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:50:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-loses-to-barbora-krejcikova-in-korea-open-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166171\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu loses to Barbora Krejcikova in Korea Open last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Raducanu missed three match points as former Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova fought back to reach the Korea Open quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Raducanu will be left to rue a missed opportunity after losing 4-6 7-6 (12-10) 6-1 in two hours and 52 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu served for the match at 5-3 in the second set, having led it 4-1, and held a match point in that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Krejcikova broke Raducanu back and forced a tie-break &#8211; which Raducanu initially seemed to have dominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After racing out to a 5-2 lead, Raducanu found herself with two match points on the Krejcikova serve, but could not convert and the former world number two held firm to force a decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Krejcikova, ranked 39th in the world, saved two break points in the third game of the deciding set before reeling off five successive games to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Czech will face world number two Iga Swiatek of Poland in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reigning Wimbledon champion and top seed Swiatek was a 6-3 6-2 winner against Romania&#8217;s Sorana Cirstea earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu missed three match points as former Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova fought back to reach the Korea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-166171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}