Emma Raducanu stuns Jessica Pegula to advance to the quarterfinals of the Rothesay International in Eastbourne. Caroline Wozniacki also secures a win at the Bad Homburg Open.
UK, Bollywood Fever: Home-country favorite Emma Raducanu stunned No. 2 seed Jessica Pegula 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-5 to move into the quarterfinals of the Rothesay International in Eastbourne, England, on Wednesday.
For Raducanu, who won the 2021 U.S. Open, this victory marks her first win over a top 10 player. Pegula, ranked No. 5 in the world, recently won the championship on the grass courts in Berlin last week.
Neither player could capitalize on her serve, with Pegula scoring on only 63 percent of her first serves compared to Raducanu’s 66 percent in the two-hour, 42-minute match. Both players broke serve six times, but the pivotal moment came in the second-set tiebreaker. Raducanu fended off a match point at 6-5 and went on to take the set.
Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, the fifth seed, was also upset, with Katie Boulter of Great Britain earning a 6-4, 7-5 victory. Other winners included No. 3 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy, who was up 5-2 when Elise Mertens of Belgium retired, No. 4 seed Madison Keys, sixth-seeded Russian Daria Kasatkina, and unseeded players Leylah Fernandez of Canada, Brit Harriet Dart, and Czech Karolina Muchova.
Bad Homburg Open:
Former World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark advanced to the quarterfinals in Germany with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Veronika Kudermetova of Russia. Wozniacki won six straight games to close out the first set and go up 2-0 in the second, aided by converting 70 percent of points on her serve compared with 49 percent for her opponent.
Next up for Wozniacki will be No. 3 seed Emma Navarro, who defeated fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-4, 6-1. Other winners included Czech Katerina Siniakova and Russia’s Diana Shnaider.
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