Showing posts with label Emma Navarro. Show all posts
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EMMA RADUCANU DEFEATS PEYTON STEARNS IN KOREAN OPEN 1ST ROUND
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Emma Raducanu has progressed to the second round of the Korean Open after defeating Peyton Stearns in straight sets on Tuesday.
Raducanu, playing for the first time since her first-round defeat to Sofia Kenin at the US Open, came through a difficult contest against the American, who is ranked No. 48 in the world.
Both sets went to tie breaks and it was far from a straightforward affair for the British world No. 70, who was visibly exhausted at the end of the second set after a match that lasted two hours and 43 minutes.
Stearns and Raducanu both struggled to hold serve, each being broken six times, with the tie breaks hinging on some powerful baseline hitting from the 2021 US Open winner.
"I'm proud to have made it through to the next round. It was tough. It was very humid, the ball was bouncing around a lot," Raducanu said after the win.
"It was a tough match to get through. I haven't played many matches in the last few months and Peyton, she's a really good player and on really good form. I'm really pleased."
Raducanu didn't qualify automatically for the tournament in Seoul but was handed a lifeline when Iga Swiatek, Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina, Karolina Pliskova and Emma Navarro all withdrew from the competition.
She will now face Yue Yuan in the round of 16, a stern test given the Chinese player's world ranking of No. 40.
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Saturday, 23 December 2023
TOP 10S: RANKING THE BEST MEN'S AND WOMEN'S PLAYERS HEADING INTO 2024
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| Coco Gauff, ranked No. 3 in the world, won her first Grand Slam title in September. Getty Images |
It was an odd year for American tennis.
There were, as always, random thrills and breakthroughs. On the men's side, for instance, Tommy Paul reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, and Christopher Eubanks enjoyed a late-career breakthrough at Wimbledon. But the year as a whole often felt like one of stagnation.
Taylor Fritz basically ended the year where he started from a rankings standpoint and couldn't turn a top-10 ranking into sustained threats in Grand Slams. Frances Tiafoe dipped his toe into the ATP top 10 but suffered a major funk at the end of the year. Sebastian Korda seemed primed for a breakthrough but missed months with an injury. Reilly Opelka was still working back from injury. Jenson Brooksby was suspended for 18 months for missed drug tests. John Isner faded, then retired.
On the women's side, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff both remained steady threats, but for much of the year, they, too, seemed to be running in place a bit. Veterans like Madison Keys, Danielle Collins and Sloane Stephens battled consistency issues. Jennifer Brady was still working back from injury.
The US Open changed quite a bit. Gauff kicked into top-three mode over the summer and rode it to her first Slam title, while Keys came within a heartbreaking third-set tiebreak loss of the finals. Meanwhile, Fritz, Tiafoe and up-and-comer Ben Shelton broke into the quarterfinals, with the 21-year-old Shelton swaggering his way into the semis.
With lots of stars making gains and a couple breaking through in a major way, suddenly 2023 went from a year of stagnation to tantalizing development and depth. What will 2024 have in store? Do players such as Pegula, Fritz and Tiafoe still have another level to add to their respective games? Can Gauff maintain her otherworldly summer and fall form? Does Shelton's trajectory continue? Acknowledging that there are also surprises -- and that tennis' brief offseason is the perfect time for "Here's where [player] overcomes injuries and surges again" optimism -- here are our predictions for the top 10 American men and women, ranked by their 2024 prospects.
Jessica Pegula has reached the quarterfinals of five of her last eight Grand Slams. Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports
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