{"id":14372,"date":"2025-05-12T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-2025-emma-raducanu-loses-to-coco-gauff-in-rome-fourth-round\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:46:42","slug":"italian-open-2025-emma-raducanu-loses-to-coco-gauff-in-rome-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-2025-emma-raducanu-loses-to-coco-gauff-in-rome-fourth-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open 2025: Emma Raducanu loses to Coco Gauff in Rome fourth round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Emma Raducanu&#8217;s encouraging Italian Open run came to an end in the last 16 as world number three Coco Gauff proved too much of a step up in class.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu, ranked 49th in the world, lost 6-1 6-2 on the Rome clay to American Gauff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time in her career, the British number two had won three clay-court matches in a row to reach the fourth round in the Italian capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But any hopes she could cause a shock against 21-year-old Gauff were soon extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like Raducanu in 2021, Gauff&#8217;s sole major victory so far came on the hard courts of the US Open two years ago but on Monday she showed why she is also a force on the red dirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gauff, who reached the French Open final three years ago, returned superbly from the start and also dug deep in service games when required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy75dm4gp6lo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu&#8217;s encouraging Italian Open run came to an end in the last 16 as world number three Coco Gauff proved too much of a step up in class. Raducanu, ranked 49th in the world, lost 6-1 6-2 on the Rome clay to American Gauff. For the first time in her career, the British number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14374,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions\/14374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}