Emma Raducanu was swept aside 6-0, 6-2 by Romanian Sorana Cirstea on Saturday in the final of the Transylvania Open, the Briton’s first title match since her shock victory at the US Open in 2021.<\/p>\n
Four and a half years after becoming the first player in the Open era to win a Grand Slam from the qualifying rounds in New York, the tournament’s top seed got off to a disastrous start in the Romanian city of Cluj, conceding the first eight games to her opponent.<\/p>\n
Trailing 6-0, 2-0, Raducanu<\/a> won her first game on her opponent’s serve, before asking to have her blood pressure taken at the changeover.<\/p>\n Clearly not at her best, the 23-year-old nevertheless managed to level the match at two games all before conceding the last four and losing in just over an hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cirstea<\/a>, who at 35 has already said this will be her last season on tour, won the fourth title of her career, and first in her home country.<\/p>\n “Someone please pinch me, because this is a dream come true,” Cirstea said after compatriot and former world number one Simona Halep<\/a> presented her with the trophy.<\/p>\n “I still can’t believe that I’m holding the trophy as champion here in Cluj. I am so, so happy.”<\/p>\n The world number 36 previously picked up titles in Tashkent in 2008, Istanbul in 2021 and Cleveland in 2025.<\/p>\n It was not all doom and gloom for British tennis on Saturday, however, as Katie Boulter<\/a> fought back from a set down to win the Ostrava Open.<\/p>\n The former world number 23 beat 124th-ranked German Tamara Korpatsch<\/a> 5-7, 6-2, 6-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu was swept aside 6-0, 6-2 by Romanian Sorana Cirstea on Saturday in the final of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-456039","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\/456039","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=456039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}