{"id":1124,"date":"2025-10-05T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:00:46","slug":"emma-raducanu-opens-up-on-her-two-most-agonising-defeats-ahead-of-return-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu opens up on her two most agonising defeats ahead of return to action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> admits she found it hard to come to terms with agonising defeats in her last two tournaments, as she failed to convert three match points in her defeats against Barbora Krejcikova and Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n

The British No 1 turned in two of her best performances of 2025 in the opening two sets of the matches against Krejcikova and Pegula<\/a>, before fading badly in the third set of both.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions from Tennis365 at the Dongfeng \u00b7 Voyah Wuhan Open, Raducanu conceded that while the defeats were hard to accept, she found plenty of silver linings ahead of playing in her final W1000 event of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was hard for me,\u201d said Raducanu. \u201cThe last two matches that I lost, I had match points in both. And it\u2019s not something that\u2019s really happened to me before, and then to happen twice in a week was pretty new, and to get my head around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the second match, I found it easier to get over than the first, because I know I was playing some better tennis and just improving with my level, and I feel like I didn\u2019t take too long to kind of dwell on it, and just got straight back to work and trying to get ready as best as possible for this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Raducanu\u2019s serve has been one of her biggest weapons in recent weeks, with the work she has been doing alongside her coach, Francisco Roig, making a big impact.<\/p>\n

She also served well in her opening two win at the US Open and it keen to build on that progress in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I was doing things that I wasn\u2019t really doing in the first part of the year,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I was also dealing with Jessie\u2019s (Pegula) ball pretty well compared to when we played in Miami. I felt just a lot more competent and composed when I was playing her this time round, which was good for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I do feel like I\u2019m improving and making progress. I still see the differences in where I want to go, but I know I\u2019m doing good work day to day to try and get there.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I think my serving has been helping me out in some moments, in matches and the first round as well, when I played Cristina (Bucsa), you know, she\u2019s also a player who\u2019s won a lot of matches, and I think just being able to get a free point here and there on the serve makes a big difference. And yeah, I\u2019m happy with just the progress that I\u2019m making.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raducanu is feeling at home on her first visit to the Wuhan tournament, with her mother\u2019s Chinese heritage making this a special part of the year.<\/p>\n

She is also in Wuhan at a big moment in their year, as the Chinese nation are celebrating Golden Week, a time of the year when families gather to spend time together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve driven past a few cool areas,\u201d she added. \u201cThere\u2019s a lavender field like right across from the tennis centre, which looks pretty spectacular, the colours and obviously a big national holiday here. So there are a lot of people, but the area where we\u2019re staying is very new, and the buildings are massive. The scale is huge, so it\u2019s quite interesting to see.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two really nice stadiums that I\u2019ve seen so far. The architecture of them are really, really nice and interesting. So it\u2019s pretty nice to be playing in such a unique arena. First time playing here, which is also exciting. I\u2019m still trying to find my way around, but managed in the last couple days and different conditions again to Beijing, so just been trying to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu admits she found it hard to come to terms with agonising defeats in her last two tournaments, as she failed to convert three match points in her defeats against Barbora Krejcikova and Jessica Pegula. The British No 1 turned in two of her best performances of 2025 in the opening two sets of […]<\/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-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","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=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}