{"id":1097,"date":"2025-09-28T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:48:50","slug":"how-emma-raducanu-shocked-and-amazed-the-china-open-crowd-in-her-on-court-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"How Emma Raducanu shocked and amazed the China Open crowd in her on-court interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu began her debut campaign at the China Open with a convincing win, and she left the crowd in amazement with what she did after the match.<\/p>\n

The world No 32 defeated 67th-ranked Cristina Bucsa 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament on Saturday<\/a>, having received a first round bye as the 30th seed.<\/p>\n

Raducanu<\/a> broke Bucsa four times and lost serve just once as she improved her head-to-head record against the 27-year-old Spaniard to 2-1. She beat Bucsa at the Queen\u2019s Club Championships in June having lost the pair\u2019s first encounter in Singapore in January.<\/p>\n

After her victory over Bucsa, Raducanu started her on-court interview in English.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it was super difficult, Cristina was playing amazing today,\u201d said the 2021 US Open champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my first time [playing] here in China, so I\u2019m very happy to have gotten over it, and after a tough one last week, to come back and bounce back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to do my best, I really want to do well here. I\u2019m half Chinese, so it\u2019s great to come back here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Raducanu was born in Toronto, Canada to a Chinese mother, Renee Zhai, and a Romanian father, Ion Raducanu. Renee was in attendance for her daughter\u2019s debut in Beijing.<\/p>\n

She grew up in England, with the family having moved to Bromley when she was two years old, but she also speaks Mandarin and Romanian.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old\u2019s mention of being half Chinese drew cheers from the fans in Beijing, and she delighted the crowd further by addressing them in Mandarin.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu is showing off her excellent mandarin, she\u2019s truly a cool girl! \"\u2764\"\u200d\"\u26e9\" pic.twitter.com\/BKtGiJyTOV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 el (@hideandrise) September 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fans loudly expressed their surprise and approval during Raducanu\u2019s speech, and she has surely only enhanced her popularity in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Raducanu could benefit from the support of the local fans again in her next match as she faces a tough test in the form of world No 7 Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n

The Brit holds a 1-2 record against the 31-year-old American star, who she defeated in Eastbourne last year. Pegula won the pair\u2019s most recent clash in three sets in the Miami Open quarter-finals in March.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu began her debut campaign at the China Open with a convincing win, and she left the crowd in amazement with what she did after the match. The world No 32 defeated 67th-ranked Cristina Bucsa 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament on Saturday, having received a first round bye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}