{"id":184263,"date":"2025-06-14T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184263\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T17:10:08","slug":"emma-raducanu-aims-dig-at-queens-rival-as-star-responds-to-boos-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184263\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu aims dig at Queen’s rival as star responds to boos | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> has suggested that the chair umpire should have done something about Qinwen Zheng repeatedly halting their Queen’s quarter-final match. Raducanu was dumped out of the tournament on Friday as Zheng romped to a straight-sets victory, with the Brit seeing her rhythm interrupted by several unexpected delays.<\/p>\n

The crowd grew increasingly frustrated with Zheng, and a few even booed as she stopped the match three times to tend to issues with her racket and shoes. Raducanu also appeared to be irked, flashing a perplexed look down-court at the start of the third delay, and skirting the rules by firing off a practice serve<\/a> while her opponent was making footwear adjustments.<\/p>\n

It’s tricky to say just how big an impact the stoppages had on the final scoreline, which finished 6-2 6-4 in Zheng’s favour. But it was clear during Raducanu’s post-match media duties that she was not entirely happy about the Chinese player’s conduct.<\/p>\n

“I think the fact it happened three times on my serve, I feel like maybe something could have been done [by the umpire],” said the Brit. “But I’m not going to get into it.”<\/p>\n

A run to the quarter-finals, which included dominant wins over Cristina Bucsa and Rebecca Sramkova, was enough to see Raducanu return to the top of the British women’s rankings ahead of Katie Boulter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And her impressive performances will go towards a bank of grass-court momentum as she warms up for Wimbledon<\/a> at the end of the month. But coming up against the top seed was a wake-up call about the gap Raducanu must close in order to harbour realistic hopes of making it into the later rounds at SW19.<\/p>\n

Dissecting the match, the 22-year-old said: “I think returning is one of my big strengths, and I think Qinwen served really well. I didn\u2019t see many second serves. She hit her spots really well in some big moments. Credit to her. She kind of took away one of my bigger strengths. I think I have a lot of work to do, to be honest.”<\/p>\n

Although Raducanu can take plenty of positives from Queen’s into Wimbledon<\/a>, one distinct drawback is a flare-up of the back problems which have hampered her since last month’s Internationaux de Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

Raducanu admits it is a ‘vulnerability’ which needs to be carefully managed, and it emerged on Saturday that she has withdrawn from the upcoming Berlin Open<\/a> to focus on staying in top shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has suggested that the chair umpire should have done something about Qinwen Zheng repeatedly halting their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[1070,75588,75590,75239,52299,44509,79,1068,5838,16,15,75589],"class_list":{"0":"post-184263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-emma-raducanu-news","10":"tag-qinwen","11":"tag-qinwen-zheng","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-raducanu","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tennis-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-zheng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}