{"id":330666,"date":"2025-08-09T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330666\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:42:11","slug":"emma-raducanu-opponent-was-left-in-tears-after-emotional-on-court-speech-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330666\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu opponent was left in tears after emotional on-court speech | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu\u2019s<\/a> next opponent was reduced to tears after an emotional battle at the French Open<\/a> earlier this year. The British No. 1 faces Olga Danilovic in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters today.<\/p>\n

Danilovic has enjoyed an incredible climb and reached a major milestone for the first time earlier this summer. A three-hour battle against Donna Vekic ended in a remarkable comeback and landed the Serbian a place in the second week of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career. The achievement was made all the more incredible after Danilovic had been bageled in the first set. She went on to win 0-6 7-5 7-6(8) in the thrilling third-round encounter, having started the tournament as a qualifier and ranked world No. 125.<\/p>\n

After sealing match point, Danilovic was visibly emotional and started crying during her on-court interview. The tears continued to flow as she spoke.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old said: \u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. I have no words. Thank you everyone for supporting me here in this match. I\u2019m enjoying my time here so much. I don\u2019t even know how I won this match. I was coming back and down so many times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so happy. I just want to say thank you everyone for being here. It\u2019s been so many rain delays. Not good weather. You\u2019re really a tennis country. I don\u2019t know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking later in her press conference, Danilovic confirmed they were happy tears after battling through a gruelling encounter. She said: \u201cI mean, those are tears of relief and happiness. I mean, we played for three hours and eight minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSit in one place for three hours and eight minutes and you’re going to be bored. Your heart is going to get, like, up, because being in that level of stress for three hours and eight minutes, I don’t know if it’s healthy, I mean, at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danilovic, who is now ranked 43rd in the world, will face Raducanu in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters after beating fellow Briton Katie Boulter<\/a>. She defeated the 28-year-old 6-0 7-5 to set up a meeting with the world No. 39.<\/p>\n

Raducanu has also enjoyed a positive year and she is now working with Francis Roig, Rafa Nadal<\/a>\u2019s former coach. Roig has joined the 22-year-old\u2019s team on a full-time basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu\u2019s next opponent was reduced to tears after an emotional battle at the French Open earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[118805,1070,5066,93,79,1068,16,15,82133],"class_list":{"0":"post-330666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-masters","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-french-open","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-world-rankings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114999102387992908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330666","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=330666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}