Emma Raducanu has won her first match on a grass court at the Queen\u2019s Club and she admitted she was filled with nerves before taking to Court No 1 at the iconic London venue.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a> teamed up with British No 1 Katie Boulter to seal a a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Wu Fang-Hsien and Jiang Xinyu.<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open champion is not a doubles expert and has only played in the format on one previous occasion when she partnered Clara Tauson in round one of the 2022 Washington Open.<\/p>\n Many fans at Queen\u2019s club emptied out of Centre Court singles action to watch Raducanu and she made an honest confession as she spoke to the media.<\/p>\n \u201cI was actually very nervous before the match,\u201d said Raducanu \u201cI don\u2019t know if Katie could tell. Probably more nervous than the singles, because I just didn\u2019t really necessarily know what to do, but I\u2019m really happy once we got out there. Katie made me feel so comfortable, and I\u2019m just so pleased to get a win on the board.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu may be one win away from a huge rankings breakthrough at Queen\u2019s Club<\/a><\/p>\n Prize money earned by Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Emma Raducanu in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n When asked how the decision was made to play doubles at Queen\u2019s the top two women in British tennis suggested they have come close to entering events in recent months and finally decided to take the plunge.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of came spontaneously, like all things do with us, but it went pretty well,\u201d continued Raducanu.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just going to keep trying to do as best as we can this week and take it from there.<\/p>\n \u201cI think on the grass, it\u2019s a very quick change to grass from clay, and it\u2019s a very different surface. So I think it helps us to try and get a feel for serving, returning, and playing some live points.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are playing Billie Jean King Cup, and we want to put ourselves in the best position possible. So for us, as well, to kind of get some matches on the court together is just good preparation for that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n The cheers wer echoing around the main show court at Queen\u2019s as the match point was won by Raducanu and Boulter, with the tight surrounds of the second show court at the WTA 500 tournament appealing to Raducanu.<\/p>\n \u201cI think sometimes on the smaller courts you get a bigger feel for the match and the atmosphere and the environment because it\u2019s a lot closer, more intimate, and you hear the support more,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, I love playing on those smaller, outside courts where you really feel the support and the crowd gets into it. I was filling my bottle up, and I was literally having a chat in the stands, because that\u2019s how close it is. But I think it puts a really nice feel to it.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: How Lois Boisson broke an Emma Raducanu WTA Rankings record with French Open run<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu makes brutally honest confession after winning first match at Queen\u2019s Club<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu has won her first match on a grass court at the Queen\u2019s Club and she admitted she was filled with nerves before taking to Court No 1 at the iconic London venue. Raducanu teamed up with British No 1 Katie Boulter to seal a a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Wu Fang-Hsien and Jiang […]<\/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-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h3>\n