Sep 27, 2025, 10:14 AM ETEmma Raducanu enjoyed a winning start at the China Open.\u00a0Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu<\/a> claimed a first victory in China with a straight-sets success against Spain’s Cristina Bucsa<\/a> in Beijing.<\/p>\n As the 30th seed, Raducanu received a bye in the first round of the China Open but she looked sharp from the start in a high-quality 6-3, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n Raducanu had faced Bucsa twice before this season — losing narrowly in Singapore and then winning comfortably on the grass at Queen’s Club<\/a> — and there was little to choose between them in a compelling first set.<\/p>\n The difference was Raducanu’s serve, with the British number one saving six break points, four of them in the opening game, and hitting four aces.<\/p>\n Raducanu made the breakthrough in the eighth game, with Bucsa serving a double fault on break point and the 22-year-old extended her run of games to five to lead 2-0 in the second set.<\/p>\n She missed a chance to make it six and was then broken for the only time in the match, but Raducanu quickly got on the front foot again and powered through to a third-round clash with fifth seed Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n It was a special win for Raducanu — whose mother is from China — and she looked noticeably happier than she did last week in Korea, when she held match points against Barbora Krejcikova, only to lose.<\/p>\n – Way-Too-Early Grand Slam predictions for 2026<\/a> “Super difficult, Cristina was playing amazing,” she told Sky Sports. “I’m very happy to have gotten over it and after a tough one last week to bounce back. I really want to do well here. I’m half Chinese so it’s great to come back here.”<\/p>\n Raducanu then received hearty applause from the local fans for speaking in Mandarin.<\/p>\n Also through to the third round is Sonay Kartal after a very impressive 6-3, 6-0 victory over 14th seed Daria Kasatkina — her third win against a top-20 player this season.<\/p>\n And Kartal will have high hopes of going further with unseeded Australian Maya Joint up next.<\/p>\n Top seed Iga Swiatek wasted little time in beating Yue Yuan 6-0, 6-3 but US Open semifinalist Naomi Osaka was upset 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 by Aliaksandra Sasnovich.<\/p>\n Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, meanwhile, made her return on home soil following elbow surgery with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Emiliana Arango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 27, 2025, 10:14 AM ETEmma Raducanu enjoyed a winning start at the China Open.\u00a0Robert Prange\/Getty Images Emma…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-185546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185546","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=185546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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