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Leylah Fernandez, Anna Kalinskaya and Emma Raducanu have all made healthy leaps in the WTA Rankings after their runs at the Citi DC Open.

The WTA 500 tournament in Washington was the biggest tour-level women’s event held last week, and there were four top 20 stars in action in Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro, Elena Rybakina and Clara Tauson.

The top 20 remains unchanged, however, as Pegula and Navarro fell in their opening matches, Tauson lost in the quarter-finals and Rybakina reached the last four.

Fernandez crushed Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 in the Washington final to claim her fourth and biggest career title.

The 22-year-old Canadian started the event ranked 36th and she has surged up to 24th with her triumph. Her career-high ranking is world No 13.

Kalinskaya’s search for a maiden WTA Tour title goes on after her third final defeat, but the 26-year-old Russian’s run has lifted her from 48th to 31st in the rankings.

Rybakina, who lost to Fernandez in a fiercely-contested semi-final, remains in 12th position.

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Raducanu reached her first semi-final of the 2025 season in DC before she was stopped by Kalinskaya.

The 22-year-old Brit is up from 46th to 33rd place — her highest ranking since August 2022, just before the points from her 2021 US Open title dropped.

Since the 2024 Citi Open was staged a week later due to the Olympics, Raducanu will drop the 108 points from her quarter-final result at last year’s event when the rankings next update.

This has dropped Raducanu from 33rd to 42nd in the Live WTA Rankings, but she has the chance to climb back up if she makes a run in Montreal. Raducanu did not compete in Canada last year.

Elsewhere, Maria Bouzkova has climbed eight places to 39th after beating Linda Noskova to secure the WTA 250 title in Prague.

Maria Sakkari and Taylor Townsend both reached the quarter-finals in Washington, and they have moved up +18 to 72nd and +22 to 75th respectively.

Elina Avanesyan has suffered a 13-place slide to 67th, while Alycia Parks is -16 to world No 74. Olga Danilovic has fallen eight spots to 40th.

WTA Rankings Top 20

1. Aryna Sabalenka – 12,420
2. Coco Gauff, United States – 7,669
3. Iga Swiatek, Poland – 6,813
4. Jessica Pegula, United States – 6,423
5. Mirra Andreeva – 4,914
6. Zheng Qinwen, China – 4,553
7. Amanda Anisimova, United States – 4,470
8. Madison Keys, United States – 4,374
9. Jasmine Paolini, Italy – 3,576
10. Paula Badosa, Spain – 3,454
11. Emma Navarro, United States – 3,420
12. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan – 2,893
13. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine – 2,794
14. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic – 2,718
15. Ekaterina Alexandrova – 2,666
16. Liudmila Samsonova – 2,576
17. Diana Shnaider – 2,526
18. Daria Kasatkina, Australia – 2,361
19. Clara Tauson, Denmark – 2,346
20. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland – 2,190

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After a strong performance at the Citi DC Open, Emma Raducanu will look to continue her form at the Canadian Open.

In Washington, Raducanu delivered strong displays to defeat Marta Kostyuk 7-6(4), 6-4, Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-2, and Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5.

A 4-6, 3-6 loss to Anna Kalinskaya ended Raducanu’s run at the WTA 500 event at the semi-final stage.

The world No 46 will begin her campaign at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal with a first round clash against Elena-Gabriela Ruse.

Elena-Gabriela Ruse

Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born in Bucharest, Romania on November 6, 1997. Her father was a footballer, while her mother is a former gymnast. She has named her compatriot Simona Halep, a two-time major champion and former world No 1, as her idol.

In her maiden WTA Tour final, Ruse defeated Andrea Petkovic at the WTA 250 clay-court event in Hamburg in 2021 to claim her only WTA singles title to date.

Ruse has since been a runner-up at three WTA 250 events: to Danielle Collins at the 2021 Palermo Open (clay), to Tamara Korpatsch at the 2023 Transylvania Open (indoor hard), and to Elise Mertens at the 2025 Libema Open (grass).

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The Romanian’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the third round at the 2024 US Open, with her overall record at majors 6-12.

Ruse’s career win-loss record at WTA Tour level is 49-62 (12-10 in 2025), while she reached a career-high ranking of 51st in May 2022.

The 27-year-old, who is currently ranked 56th, has lost her last three matches since her semi-final win at the Libema Open final in June.

Raducanu and Ruse’s friendship

Raducanu, whose father Ion is Romanian, has been good friends with Ruse since 2021.

“We started to be friends, she’s a nice person,” Ruse told the Guardian in 2021. “I enjoy the time with her so much. She is speaking really good Romanian but she’s so shy to do it.”

After training and going for dinner together during the 2021 Transylvania Open in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, Raducanu and Ruse played an exhibition match at London’s Royal Albert Hall later that year.

Head-to-head

In the pair’s only previous meeting, Raducanu defeated Ruse 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in the opening round of the 2024 Auckland Open.

It was Raducanu’s first match in eight months after she had undergone three surgeries — on both wrists and her left ankle — in 2023.

The winner of their match in Montreal will face 32nd seed Peyton Stearns in the second round.

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Former British player Barry Cowan has identified what makes grass and hard courts Emma Raducanu’s best surfaces as he looked ahead to the US Open.

Raducanu continued her positive 2025 campaign with an impressive run to the semi-finals of the Citi DC Open in Washington this week.

The 22-year-old saw off Marta Kostyuk, Naomi Osaka and Maria Sakkari without losing a set before falling 4-6, 3-6 to Anna Kalinskaya in the last four.

The Brit holds a 21-15 record this season and she has climbed 13 places from 46th to 33rd in the Live WTA Rankings with the 195 points she has gained for her run at the WTA 500 event.

Raducanu lost six of her first nine matches of 2025 before kickstarting her year with a run to the quarter-finals of the Miami Open in March after linking up with coach Mark Petchey.

In an interview with Tennishead, Cowan addressed Raducanu’s chances at the 2025 US Open, which will begin on August 24.

“Yeah, I think grass and fast hard courts are her best surfaces,” said the former world No 162.

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“I think the reason for that is that she is a great timer of a tennis ball. And when she won the US Open, she predominantly played her tennis on the baseline and used her great timing to hit the ball early and rush her opponents.

“Obviously, on the slower hard courts, on the clay courts, it’s a totally different type of style that is required, but yeah, I mean, she can do well at the US Open, but I think that the women’s tour is something where I do feel, you know, I look back to Washington last year as a good example. I thought she’d played a great in Washington.

“She played two really good matches, she won, she built momentum, she lost narrowly to [Paula] Badosa in the quarter-finals, and then she didn’t play after that until the US Open.

“Well, you can’t expect to play, you know, one great week and then not play for three or four weeks and then pick it up. At 30 years of age or 35 years of age, if you’re a [Novak] Djokovic, or further back, Serena Williams — that’s okay.

“But for Raducanu, she needs matches.”

Raducanu will face world No 56 Elena Gabriela Ruse in her opening match at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal next week.

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Jessica Pegula is the defending champion at the Canadian Open so she has a lot at stake over the next fortnight, but Iga Swiatek will start with a clean slate while Emma Raducanu’s situation is slightly complicated.

The Canadian Open, the sixth WTA 1000 tournament of the 2025 season, is key to the North American hard-court swing as it is one of the warm-up events for the US Open.

This year marks the first time that the expanded tournament will be played over 12 days with first-round matches starting on July 27 while the final of the WTA event hosted on August 7. Last year’s Canadian Open was staged a week later due to the 2024 Paris Olympics as the event took place from August 6-12.

It means it slightly complicates the points that players are defending from corresponding events 12 months ago as they will not only drop points from the 2024 Canadian Open, but also the Washington Open in DC as that WTA 500 tournament ran from July 29 until August 4.

So if player A played in DC and/or Canada in 2024, they will drop points from both of those events in the coming week.

How Many Points Are The Top Players Dropping

Let’s start with world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who has opted to sit out last week’s Washington DC Open and the upcoming Canadian Open. Sabalenka, though, played in both tournaments in 2024 and she reached the semi-final in the United States and the quarter-finals a week later.

The three-time Grand Slam winner will drop a total of 410 points (215+195) and, of course, she won’t pick up any points over the next 12 days as she won’t play at the WTA 1000 event as she felt she needed a longer break after Wimbledon. Sabalenka sits on 12,420 points ahead of the Canada event and will be on 12,010 at the end, enough to maintain her big lead at the top.

World No 2 and reigning French Open champion Coco Gauff didn’t play in DC in 2024 as she competed in Paris, but then returned at the Canadian Open and reached the third round so she will drop 120 points.

Wimbledon winner Iga Swiatek won bronze at the 2024 Olympic Games so she didn’t play in either event so she will not defend any points in Montreal. Fourth seed Mirra Andreeva, seventh seed Jasmine Paolini and ninth seed Elena Rybakina are some of the other players who didn’t play 12 months ago.

Defending champion Pegula has the most to lose in Canada as she earned 1,000 points 12 months ago when she defeated Amanda Anisimova, but she didn’t compete in DC in 2024.

Anisimova will drop 650 after finishing runner-up in Canada in 2024 and another 133 for reaching the quarter-finals in DC.

Diana Shnaider and Emma Navarro were the quarter-finalists 12 months ago and they will both drop 390 points.

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Emma Raducanu is another of the high-profile players who didn’t feature at the WTA 1000 tournament in 2024 as her ranking was not good enough for a direct entry so she won’t drop any points.

But on the flip side, Raducanu competed at the Washington DC Open in 2024 and she reached the quarter-final so her 108 points from that event will be scrapped after the Canadian Open. Raducanu, though, also competed at the 2025 edition in DC and reached the semi-final (195).

Confused?

Raducanu’s 195 points from the 2025 Washington run will be added to her tally when the WTA Rankings are updated on Monday, July 28, but her 108 points from 2024 will come off after the Canadian Open.

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Emma Raducanu came up short in the Mubadala Citi DC Open semi-final as she was beaten in straight sets by Anna Kalinskaya, but it was an excellent week for the Brit as she has surged up the rankings and walked away with some decent prize money.

The 22-year-old, who started the WTA 500 tournament at No 46 in the WTA Rankings, kicked off her campaign against seventh seed Marta Kostyuk and won in straight sets before another two-set victory over former world No 1 and four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka.

Raducanu made it three wins in a row as she booked her place in the semi-final with a 6-4, 7-5 win over former world No 3 Maria Sakkari, but her run was ended by Kalinskaya as the Russian came away with a dominant 6-4, 6-3 victory.

It was a week of progress for the British player in Washington DC as she showed glimpses of the former that helped her to storm to the 2021 US Open title as a qualifier.

WTA Points Earned By Raducanu

Players who reach the semi-final of WTA tournaments pick up 195 ranking points, but they also have to defend points from the same period 12 months ago. But there is good news and bad news for Raduanu.

First, the bad news as she reached the quarter-final in 2024, so she had 108 points to defend, which means she effectively earned 87 points for her last-four appearances.

Now for the good news, the Washington DC event was staged a week later in 2024 (July 29 – August 4) due to the Paris Olympics so those points will only drop next week.

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It means the full 195 points were added to Raducanu’s tally for a total of 1406, and she has jumped 13 places to No 33 in the Live Rankings. Of course, those 108 points will be deducted next week.

But when the WTA Rankings are updated on Monday, July 28, she will be safely inside the top 35, while she will also regain the British No 1 ranking, having lost it again to Katie Boulter after Wimbledon.

Raducanu also teamed up with Elena Rybakina in the doubles and they also earned 195 points each for reaching the semi-final. The Brit is set to rise 296 places to No 273 in the doubles rankings.

WTA Prize Money Earned By Raducanu

The 2021 US Open winner started the tournament with career prize money earnings of $5,337,037 with the bulk of that coming from her fairytale run four years ago in New York.

Her 2025 earnings were $889,221 and she will add a total of $82,755 for her efforts (singles and doubles) in Washington DC.

Raducanu earned $71,205 for reaching the last four of the singles, while she will also receive money for the doubles campaign alongside Rybakina.

Doubles teams earn $23,100 as a pair for reaching the last four and they have to split that so Raducanu will go home with $11,550, taking her combined earnings to $82,755.

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Toni Nadal has, reportedly, declined an offer to become the coach of world No 3 Alexander Zverev, due to time constraints.

The uncle of the 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal was spotted alongside the German player, as Zverev practised at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca two weeks after his Wimbledon loss.

Nadal has been the inaugural director of the academy since its establishment in 2016 and is also the tournament director of the ATP 250 event held in Mallorca.

According to a report from Sport Blid, those roles consume much of the 64-year-old’s time, forcing him to turn down the offer of coach.

Additionally, Rafael Nadal personally told the three-time Grand Slam finalist that he could use the facilities of the renowned academy at any time.

Zverev suffered a shock first-round loss at the latest edition of Wimbledon at the hands of Arthur Rinderknech, with the German looking riddled with nerves and passivity at the crunch moments of the match.

Afterwards, the two-time Nitto ATP Finals champion disclosed that he would be open to finding an additional coach – on top of his father, Alexander Senior

“Possibly,” the 28-year-old said, during his post-match press conference.

“As I said, yeah, it’s a different feeling right now for me. I can’t speak for the moment. But I think I’ll have answers by Canada.”

Despite the decline of the invitation, Nadal was crystal clear in his analysis of where Zverev is lacking.

“Zverev, it’s a mental problem,” said the Mallorcan.

“For example, last year when he played against [Carlos] Alcaraz in the Roland Garros final, he won the third set and start the fourth… in this moment he knows he plays against Alcaraz, Alcaraz is a wonderful player.

“This is a moment when you have to put a lot of attention in these first games. In this moment Zverev played, in the first game, he was in troubles with his team, he started to talk, and within 10 minutes it was 4-0 or 4-1 to Alcaraz.

“This is what can happen. I don’t say this to be bad to Zverev, because I appreciate him, but for me, has to change.

“When he changes, he has everything. I think he played better before, I remember some matches against Rafael and [Roger] Federer, he played very well.

“If he wants to win and have chances to win a Grand Slam, he needs to change a little his mentality. He can win, but to win is a thing about mentality.

“In Roland Garros, why did he lose? Against Sinner [in the Australian Open final] at 40-0, he was not brave enough. It is not easy, but I think he can win. He is the third player in the world, he can win. But it’s about working hard and working hard at what you are not good enough at.”

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“A very good week,” said the German, speaking after his final practice session on the Centre Court of the academy.

“I’ve had lot of help from Toni and from Rafa as well, it was fantastic seeing the two of them once again.

“The academy is very beautiful, Mallorca, in general, is very beautiful. Especially in summer, it’s very, very hot, so I enjoyed my time and I’m ready to go to the United States now.”

Zverev is next due to participate at the Canadian Masters, July 27 – August 7, and will begin against either Benjamin Bonzi or Adam Walton in the second round.

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The seventh WTA 1000 tournament of the season is due to get underway in Montreal, with seven of the world’s top 10 singles players in action.

At last year’s tournament – held in Toronto – Jessica Pegula defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 to claim her third WTA 1000 tournament and her sixth WTA singles title overall.

The event will take place from July 27 – August 7 at Montreal’s IGA Stadium.

Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek lead the way as the top two seeds, with world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka having withdrawn before the draw was made.

Other top names include defending champion Pegula, Mirra Andreeva, Anisimova, Madison Keys, and Emma Raducanu.

Wildcards include 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu and 18-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko.

World No 2 Coco Gauff leads the top section of the draw, and will likely face former world No 7 Danielle Collins in her opening match, should the American get past a qualifier. The two have never faced each other.

In the third round, the one-time Grand Slam champion is projected to face 29^th seed Olga Daniolvic, and either Sofia Kenin or Diana Shnaider in the last 16.

Should Gauff make the quarter-finals, she is projected to face seventh seed Jasmine Paolini, who has won both of their last two meetings – albeit on clay.

Other possibilities include 12^th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, 18^th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, and 26^th seed Ashlyn Krueger.

Fourth seed Mirra Andreeva headlines the bottom section of Gauff’s half, with the Russian being projected to face off against American Emma Navarro in the quarter-finals.

Iga Swiatek leads the bottom half of the women’s singles draw, also benefitting from a bye in the first round as a result of being seeded.

The newly-crowned Wimbledon champion will open against a qualifier or Yulia Putintseva – the very player who last beat Swiatek at SW19.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is projected to face the former world No 1 in the third round, with either 16^th seed Clara Tauson or 21^st seed Magdalena Frech likely waiting afterwards.

Australian Open champion Madison Keys has landed in Swiatek’s quarter of the draw, and may clash with the six-time Grand Slam champion in the last eight, should the American get past the other seeds in her section – such as Karolina Muchova and Belinda Bencic.

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Raducanu, who will return to the British No 1 spot on Monday thanks to her Washington run, is in the Pole’s half and begins her Montreal campaign against Elena-Gabriela Ruse.

32^nd seed Peyton Stearns, who benefits from a bye, would be the 2021 US Open champion’s next opponent, with a clash against Amanda Anisimova projected in the third round – a matchup which the Brit likes, having convincingly won both of their meetings this season.

Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and Elise Mertens are the other two seeds in Raducanu’s eighth, being potential fourth-round hurdles.

Defending champion Pegula is the top seed within the Brit’s quarter, with 13^th seed Liudmila Samsonova, 22^nd seed Jelena Ostapenko, and 25^th seed Magda Linette other potential quarter-final options.

Raducanu has never won a singles match at the Canadian Open, having last competed there in 2022.

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Former world No 9 Andrea Petkovic has proclaimed that it is Novak Djokovic’s “destiny” to be “the third wheel” after Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

Sinner and Alcaraz have won the last seven Grand Slam titles between them, with the Italian securing four and the Spaniard claiming three.

Djokovic was the last man outside of Sinner and Alcaraz to win a major, having collected a record-extending 24th Slam at the 2023 US Open.

Since the start of 2024, Djokovic has reached the semi-finals at five of the seven Grand Slam tournaments, including all three in 2025.

Four of the 38-year-old Serbian’s six major defeats in this period have come against Sinner or Alcaraz (he pulled out of the 2024 French Open through injury).

Speaking on her and Boris Becker’s podcast, Petkovic compared Djokovic’s current status to the position he was in with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal early in his career.

“He was with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, and now he’s with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner,” said the German.

“I’m glad we have him, but he’s no longer a favourite. It was his initial destiny in tennis to be number three, then there were years when he was number one.

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“Now, towards the end of his career, it’s his destiny again to be the third wheel. What did he do wrong to be the third wheel again?

“It must be said that he played three Grand Slam semi-finals in 2025. He’s clearly better than the rest of the field in big matches. But against those two (Alcaraz and Sinner), it’s not enough.”

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In February, Petkovic weighed in on Djokovic after injury forced him retire in his Australian Open semi-final against Alexander Zverev after a quarter-final win against Alcaraz.

“I’m not worried about Novak, I thought he played so well at the Australian Open — that match against Carlos (Alcaraz),” Petkovic told Tennis Channel’s Inside-In podcast.

“Some people wanted to put this one on Carlos, I just thought he was outplayed by Novak. I didn’t think he (Alcaraz) played so badly and so I’m not worried about Novak at all in terms of tennis, just worried about his health and if he’s healthy, he will be fine.”

During the Australian Open in January, Petkovic marvelled at Djokovic’s performances and vowed never to doubt the former world No 1 again.

“Whoever doubts Novak’s tennis ever again, whether Novak’s 37 years old or 55 years old, should from this day forth be punished with perpetual silence. Yes, I’m talking about myself,” she wrote on her blog on Substack.

“It’s not that I ever doubted the quality of tennis necessarily, it’s just that I couldn’t quite believe he would be able to retain enough explosiveness to hang with the young guys.

“Novak still has it and I would argue for three matches (Machac, Lehecka and Alcaraz), he played better than ever.

“He was still the same consistent percentage player who never misses, but conscious of his age, he hit the ball bigger and changed directions more frequently, yet still undetectable for the opposing side.”

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Brad Gilbert has rubbished reports that Jannik Sinner’s coach Darren Cahill will not be working with the Italian at the 2025 US Open.

On Friday, Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported that Simone Vagnozzi would be Sinner’s only coach at the New York Grand Slam as they claimed Cahill will take “a short break.”

Sinner has been coached by former Italian player Vagnozzi since February 2022, while Cahill joined the team in July 2022.

The coaching unit has been hugely successful, with Sinner winning four of the last seven Grand Slams and holding the world No 1 ranking since June 2024.

Gilbert, a former coach of Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Coco Gauff, works alongside Cahill as an analyst and commentator for ESPN.

In reply to a Twitter post sharing the claim that Cahill will miss the US Open, Gilbert made it clear that he expects the Australian to be at Flushing Meadows.

“For the record this is completely fake news,” wrote the former world No 4.

Cahill is a former ATP player and renowned coach who previously guided Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt and Simona Halep to Grand Slam titles and world No 1.

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The Australian was expected to leave Sinner’s team at the end of the 2025 season after it was announced at the start of the year that he would be retiring from coaching on the tour.

However, Cahill has not fully closed the door on continuing his partnership with Sinner. Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera claimed after Sinner’s Wimbledon triumph earlier this month that Cahill will remain on the Italian’s team in 2026.

In his press conference following the Wimbledon final, Sinner revealed the decision on Cahill’s future was in in his hands after winning a bet.

“It depends on whether I want to tell the truth or not,” Sinner said.

“We had a bet before the final. I told him, ‘If I win tomorrow, I can decide whether you stay until the end of the year or not.’ Now the choice is mine!

“I’ve always looked for an honest person. Someone who gives me so much, not just on the tennis court, but in life outside of it, about how to live both in victories and disappointments. And he’s very good. If I choose to stay with him, he probably won’t travel so much anymore. That’s normal.

“We’ll have to see about that too. But I’ve always said, back in Australia, that I’d like to have him, because things are going well. Now we’ll see.

“The season is still nothing, there are still so many tournaments to go, and I’ll still see him a lot. You never know. But let’s say I won the bet and now it’s up to me to decide, we’ll see.”

Asked this week by the ATP Tour whether Cahill will stay, Vagnozzi said: “Honestly, nothing’s certain at the moment. But we’ll all be happy if Darren stays.”

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Emma Raducanu admitted she was “not feeling the best” before she and Elena Rybakina retired from their doubles match at the Citi DC Open.

The Brit overcame Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5 in the singles quarter-finals on a sweltering day in Washington.

Raducanu took a medical timeout and had her vital signs checked by a doctor late in the second set.

“It was brutal today,” Raducanu said in her on-court interview. “Thanks to everyone for coming out and sitting through the heat.

“It’s incredibly difficult playing, but when I’ve sat and watched matches in the heat, when you’re not moving in the seat, it’s even harder.

“It’s for sure physical, because if you don’t have the abilities then your body will fail you. But at a certain point, it then becomes mental. I knew after the first or second game, it was such a long match, the first set was over an hour.

Almost seven hours after finishing her match against Sakkari, Raducanu took to the court again to partner Rybakina in the pair’s doubles semi-final against Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai.

Raducanu and Rybakina retired after 25 minutes on court while trailing 4-1 in the opening set having lost serve twice.

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Raducanu’s decision to play the doubles match was something of a surprise given what she said in her press conference after beating Sakkari.

“I’m not feeling the best right now, so I just need to go and speak to the doctors,” the 22-year-old said.

“I think you get to a point where you’re so tired that you don’t really know what you’re doing anymore, and I think maybe that helped. I was also thinking if this goes to three sets, I don’t know how I’m going to do it.”

The world No 46 added: “I think the humidity here, as well, it just makes it feel completely like you have just opened an oven and it just stayed open and your head is in there. That’s how it feels. Wimbledon, it gets hot in England, but it’s a drier heat, not quite the same sweating.

“Today, even in the match warmup, you just go outside and you’re sweating. Honestly, it’s even hotter watching, I think, because you’re sat and you don’t create any movement and wind and flowing. A credit to everyone, yeah, and much appreciated to getting out higher and watching.”

Raducanu will face world 48th-ranked Anna Kalinskaya in the Washington semi-finals on Saturday. She could face Rybakina if she reaches the final, with the world No 12 and third seed up against Leylah Fernandez in the last four.

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