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Kartal and Raducanu have been rivals since they were children<\/p>\n
\u201cI was out quite a lot of years injured as a teenager. I didn\u2019t pick up a racquet for a couple years. <\/p>\n
“I was kind of a bit inconsistent as I guess I was going through teenage years. When I was younger, I don\u2019t think I really deserved to kind of have the funding to be honest with you. I think I was too inconsistent.”<\/p>\n
Kartal found out she will be making her debut on Centre Court on Sunday just before she played her doubles match, and she has no intention of it being her last time this fortnight.<\/p>\n
“It’s a huge honour to play on that court. A court that you dream of,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The way I am looking at it is that it’s a slightly bigger Court One. Warming up on Court One a couple of days ago will help me. I will feel much better walking out on Centre.<\/p>\n
“I know I am far from finished yet. I have done one week – got another week to go to the finish line.<\/p>\n
British women in WTA rankings<\/p>\n
Live WTA Rankings – Sunday, July 6<\/p>\n
40 – Katie Boulter (1278 points)<\/p>\n
44 – Sonay Kartal (1217 points)<\/p>\n
45 – Emma Raducanu (1211 points)<\/p>\n
121 – Fran Jones (602 points)<\/p>\n
140 – Heather Watson (513 points)<\/p>\n
146 – Jodie Burrage (485 points)<\/p>\n
189 – Harriet Dart (366 points)<\/p>\n
“There have been some crazy results. I have been given a good spot in the draw, things have opened up. I am excited and will enjoy every second.”<\/p>\n
A date with either Linda Noskova or Amanda Anisimova awaits if she can beat Pavlyuchenkova on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonay Kartal’s Wimbledon run could be a career-changing moment for the young British star. The 23-year-old is the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[10115,33961,23876,33960,62,1464,10119,67,132,68,2071,17056],"class_list":{"0":"post-43380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-kartal","10":"tag-raducanu","11":"tag-sonay-kartal","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wimbledon","19":"tag-wimbledon-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114806359556249328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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