{"id":299896,"date":"2025-07-29T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299896\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:10:11","slug":"canadian-open-briton-emma-raducanu-reaches-second-round-as-katie-boulter-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299896\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Open: Briton Emma Raducanu reaches second round as Katie Boulter exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton showed resilience in the early stages by staving off five break points in her opening service game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She then wrapped up the opening set in style by winning five successive games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After exchanging a couple of breaks in the second set, Raducanu &#8211; who also beat Ruse in Auckland in 2024 &#8211; found the crucial break to lead 5-4 and served out for the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since losing against Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon earlier in July, Raducanu has bounced back strongly with four victories from five appearances on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If she gets past Stearns in Montreal, American fifth seed and 2025 Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova could be waiting in the third round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter narrowly avoided being on the end of a bagel against Zarazua, saving two set points to get to 5-1, but the Mexican swiftly wrapped up the opener when back on serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old put up greater resistance in the second but never managed to get a foothold in the match as she crashed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Briton showed resilience in the early stages by staving off five break points in her opening service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114933859994692671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299896","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=299896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}