{"id":451181,"date":"2026-02-05T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451181\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:53:08","slug":"emma-raducanu-storms-into-cluj-semi-finals-with-win-over-maja-chwalinska-sonay-kartal-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451181\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu storms into Cluj semi-finals with win over Maja Chwalinska, Sonay Kartal beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Raducanu stormed into the semi-finals of the Transylvania Open with a commanding victory over Poland&#8217;s Maja Chwalinska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British number one, whose sole title remains her astonishing 2021 US Open triumph, rushed through the first set in 25 minutes without losing a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chwalinska, ranked 146th in the world, put up more resistance in the second set, but Raducanu struck a decisive blow at 3-3 before seeing out a 6-0 6-4  win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is just the fourth time that Raducanu has reached the semi-finals of a tournament since winning the New York major five years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy with my performance today. I played a great match from the beginning,&#8221; the 23-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As always there&#8217;s some moments of adversity you have to overcome and I did that well in the second set, so I am really proud of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu stormed into the semi-finals of the Transylvania Open with a commanding victory over Poland&#8217;s Maja Chwalinska.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-451181","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\/451181","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=451181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}