On a muggy day with the temperature topping 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), Raducanu took a medical timeout while reeling off the last five games of the match after trailing 5-2 in the second set.<\/p>\n
“I would like to say I’m pretty good in the heat, for the most part, but I was really struggling today,” said Raducanu, who was 18 when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam singles trophy. “It was one of the toughest matches, conditions-wise, I have ever played in. … Those points in the second set, I was getting a bit wobbly. I’m just happy I could close it out, and it was two sets.”<\/p>\n
Also reaching the semifinals at the hard-court tournament in Washington was Leylah Fernandez<\/a>, the runner-up to Raducanu at Flushing Meadows four years ago. Fernandez moved on with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over qualifier Taylor Townsend<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Next for Fernandez is a matchup against 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina<\/a>, the highest remaining seed in the field at No. 3. Rybakina was a 6-3, 6-3 winner over No. 5 Magdalena Frech<\/a>, the player who beat Venus Williams<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n Raducanu’s semifinal opponent Saturday will be Anna Kalinskaya<\/a>, who defeated No. 4 Clara Tauson<\/a> 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n In men’s action, Ben Shelton<\/a> made it to the DC Open semifinals for the second consecutive year, getting past Frances Tiafoe<\/a> 7-6 (2), 6-4 in an all-American quarterfinal at night. Shelton won 90% of his first-serve points and ended the match with his ninth ace, at 146 mph.<\/p>\n The fourth-seeded Shelton, a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist, will face No. 1 seed Taylor Fritz<\/a> or No. 12 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> on Saturday for a berth in the final.<\/p>\n The other men’s semifinal will pit No. 7 Alex de Minaur<\/a> against Corentin Moutet<\/a>. De Minaur beat No. 14 Brandon Nakashima<\/a> 6-4, 6-4, and Moutet was a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 winner over 2021 US Open champion Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in a match delayed for about an hour late in the third set because of lightning in the area.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 25, 2025, 07:14 PM ET WASHINGTON — Emma Raducanu earned her biggest semifinal appearance since her surprising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-37832","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\/37832","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=37832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1523402_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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