{"id":20372,"date":"2025-09-28T02:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/china-open-emma-raducanu-sonay-kartal-iga-swiatek-reach-third-round\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:57:36","slug":"china-open-emma-raducanu-sonay-kartal-iga-swiatek-reach-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/china-open-emma-raducanu-sonay-kartal-iga-swiatek-reach-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Emma Raducanu, Sonay Kartal &#038; Iga Swiatek reach third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 31 Raducanu, the 30th seed, managed only 16 winners to Bucsa&#8217;s 28, but maintained the upper hand in the key exchanges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She saved six break points in a competitive first set before winning the final two games to seemingly take charge of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu won the opening two games of the second but, after missing the chance to go 3-0 up, was pegged back as Bucsa finally broke serve to draw level at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She broke back immediately and won four of the final five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu, who had a bye in the first round, was playing for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ceq2788w4v1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">losing to Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> in the quarter-finals of the Korea Open this month, when she missed three match points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to have gotten over it and after a tough one last week to bounce back,&#8221; said Raducanu, before impressing the crowd by speaking Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I really want to do well here. I&#8217;m half-Chinese so it&#8217;s great to come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ckg2zvg5k51o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number 31 Raducanu, the 30th seed, managed only 16 winners to Bucsa&#8217;s 28, but maintained the upper hand in the key exchanges. She saved six break points in a competitive first set before winning the final two games to seemingly take charge of the match. Raducanu won the opening two games of the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20372","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\/20372","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=20372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20374,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20372\/revisions\/20374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}