{"id":332287,"date":"2025-08-10T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332287\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:48:12","slug":"cincinnati-open-emma-raducanu-wins-first-match-with-new-coach-as-jannik-sinner-and-iga-swiatek-also-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332287\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Emma Raducanu wins first match with new coach as Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek also win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu brushed aside Olga Danilovic at the Cincinnati Open to make a confident start with her new coach.<\/b><\/p>\n

The British number one has added Rafael Nadal’s former coach Francis Roig<\/a> to her team on a full-time basis as she prepares for the upcoming US Open.<\/p>\n

And the surprise 2021 champion in New York cruised to a 6-3 6-2 win in her first match since the Spaniard came aboard.<\/p>\n

Danilovic beat British number three Katie Boulter in the first round<\/a> while Raducanu had a bye, and the Serbian number one broke Raducanu to love in the first game of Saturday’s match.<\/p>\n

After four breaks of serve between the pair in the opening five games, Raducanu came from 30-0 down to grab another and make it 5-3.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old won seven points in a row to bring up three set points and took the first with an ace.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Raducanu drew errors from her 24-year-old opponent and eventually earned a break for 3-2.<\/p>\n

From that point the world number 39, ranked four spots higher than Danilovic, did not drop another game as she booked her spot in the third round in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Raducanu is playing in the WTA 1,000 event for the first time since 2022 and could next face world number one Aryna Sabalenka, against whom she suffered a narrow Wimbledon defeat last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier, Poland’s Iga Swiatek eased through to the last 32 as the Wimbledon champion claimed a 6-1 6-4 win over Russian Anastasia Potapova.<\/p>\n

Australian Open champion Madison Keys of the United States saved two match points before beating Germany’s Eva Lys 1-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu brushed aside Olga Danilovic at the Cincinnati Open to make a confident start with her new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-332287","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\/115002664832619000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332287","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=332287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}