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Telegraph
a day ago
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- Telegraph
Emma Raducanu vs Elena-Gabriela Ruse: Score and latest Canadian Open updates
6:51PM Raducanu* 2-2 Ruse Ruse is trying to take time away from Raducanu and push the Briton behind the baseline. It is a battle for court position at the moment. Double fault from Raducanu makes it deuce. She exchanges words with her coach, Mark Petche,y who tells her to get up to the ball on the toss. The advice works because she holds serve to level the set. 6:45PM Raducanu 1-2 Ruse* Ruse has certainly come to play in the early stages. Despite being 5'8' she packs plenty of power and blasts her way through another service game to hold. 6:42PM Raducanu* 1-1 Ruse A feature of Raducanu's play in Washington last week was her improved serve so we will keep an eye on those numbers tonight. A Raducanu forehand hits the net cord and the ball drops on her side of the net, 15-30. A forehand long then gives Ruse two break points. Raducanu saves the first with an unreturned first serve. And it is the same again on the second. A sigh of relief there. But she finds herself back under pressure when she shanks a forehand high and wide. Break point Ruse. Saved by Raducanu after the longest rally of the match so far. Ruse is willing to go toe-to-toe with Raducanu from the baseline but eventually sends a forehand long. Fourth break point comes and goes for Ruse. Then a fifth arrives when a deep return jams up Raducanu on the baseline. Clutch serving again by Raducanu keeps her alive in the game. And finally Raducanu comes through the game when Ruse makes a return error. That was a key hold of serve. 6:31PM Emma Raducanu 0-1 Elena-Gabriela Ruse* (*denotes server) Aggressive start by Raducanu. A couple of clean strikes and she's up 0-30. Ruse responds to the early pressure with a forehand winner and unreturned first serve, 30-all. And she comes through that test when Raducanu sends a return long. 6:27PM Here we go! About to get underway in Montreal. Big smile from Raducanu as she walks onto the court. Sparse crowd on Centre Court. It is 29C with 42 per cent humidity so it's a warm one for the players. Raducanu won the coins and chose to receive. 6:23PM Raducanu on her improved form I think I have just been doing a lot of work consistently, just putting a lot of tennis in. Sometimes even if you don't feel good when you're practicing because you're doing a lot of hours and you don't feel like you're really pushing, it's all kind of hours banked. I'm also doing, I think, a lot more focused work, and also, I think I'm serving better, and that helps a lot. I think I always returned pretty decent, but the element of just when I serve well, it does add another dimension to my game. I'm able to kind of start the points better and look for my forehand and get that into play a bit more and then dictate. 6:03PM Raducanu makes Canadian debut Hello and welcome to coverage of the Canadian Open as Emma Raducanu continues her preparations for next month's US Open. The new British No 1 returns to action after reaching the semi-finals of the Citi Open last week. Her run was ended by Anna Kalinskaya on Saturday evening so it will be a quick turnaround for the Briton in Montreal this evening. Raducanu is up to 33 in the world, putting her on the verge of a top 32 seed for the final major of the season in New York. Speaking last week, Raducanu said she was pleased with how her competitiveness has improved this year. 'I think the areas I have improved I think, one, my competitiveness,' she said. 'I think that's one of my bigger strengths when I am focused and in the zone. And I think that's something I found a lot more from, you know, March this year. I think I have been a lot more focused and competitive for each point and not being flat or defeated. 'And then I think the other thing, I think my serve has improved. Like, the last few matches I have been getting a lot more free points. And I know, like, whenever I have played well or had great results, that's been working really well. 'Then also I think just movement of my defensive skills have probably been the biggest improvement. I think I'm able to kind of dig out some points and stay in the points and use a bit more hand skills, slice, get an extra ball back. 'I think it tends, not every point, but some really important moments, it can help. I think that has improved the most.' Tonight, she faces a close friend in Elena-Gabriela Ruse, a 27-year-old from Romania. Their only previous meeting took place last year in Auckland when Raducanu needed three sets to get over the line.
Independent Singapore
4 days ago
- Sport
- Independent Singapore
Emma Raducanu aims to reclaim British No. 1 ranking at the Citi Open
Photo: Emma Raducanu has set her eyes on becoming the No.1 British player in women's tennis, especially after her commanding victory against four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka. The young athlete easily secured the win with a final scoreline of 6-4, 6-2. She will now advance to the quarter-finals of the Citi Open in Washington. Raducanu started the match with a commanding aura against Osaka. The Japanese mom-athlete is still trying to get back to her best after having her daughter Shai two years ago. Osaka then made a double fault in the fifth game, and it gave Raducanu her first chance to break. Raducanu stayed steady with her serves and won the first set. In the second set, Raducanu got another break because Osaka made more mistakes. Osaka had one chance to break Raducanu's serve at 1-2 but didn't get through it. Emma Raducanu's serve improved with the help of her coach, Mark Petchey, and it truly helped her in winning this match. With her win, Raducanu now reached the quarter-finals in the tournament for the third time, and this season, she hopes to get even further. 'I thought it was going to be a really difficult match. Naomi's won four slams, she's been world No 1, won Masters [titles]. She's so dangerous, and on the hard courts, I think she's particularly comfortable. I knew I was going to have to play really well and manage my own service games, which I'm really proud of how I did,' Raducanu told Sky Sports. She added, 'I was making some inroads in her service games after I got used to it a little bit. I'm really pleased with how I handled the ball speed and the conditions here in DC.' The 22-year-old will once again move ahead of Sonay Kartal and Katie Boulter to become the highest-ranked British player. She aims to earn a seeded position for the US Open next month. Raducanu will face Maria Sakkari next, a player she has beaten in straight sets in all three of their previous encounters. On social media, netizens expressed their support to the athlete by saying: 'well done, your game is better every day! I want to see you in the final…👏👏👏💕🎾💕', 'i'm so proud of you. The best Strong girl and fighter girl ever. Keep going. You've got this. Let's go my beautiful girl !!!! ❤️', and 'absolutely solid performance. Serve on fire. Brilliant. Keep going 💪' () => { const trigger = if ('IntersectionObserver' in window && trigger) { const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries, observer) => { => { if ( { lazyLoader(); // You should define lazyLoader() elsewhere or inline here // Run once } }); }, { rootMargin: '800px', threshold: 0.1 }); } else { // Fallback setTimeout(lazyLoader, 3000); } });
Daily Mail
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Emma Raducanu's coach admits that British No1 could be forced to replace him - with former US Open champion facing a possible NINTH person in the role since her win in New York
Emma Raducanu 's coach Mark Petchey has revealed that the British No1 could soon lose him in her team despite having played some of her best tennis during their short partnership. The former coach of Andy Murray first began working with the 2021 US Open champion during the Miami Open, after Raducanu's previous coach, Vlado Platenik, held the position for just two weeks. Raducanu and Petchey then spent the period ahead of the clay season in Los Angeles, pre-empting a promising run on the surface one year on from the 22-year-old skipping tournaments on it entirely ahead of the French Open. Although a recurrence of a back issue hampered both her Roland-Garros run and preparation for her first grass-court tournament at Queen's, Raducanu has looked back to her Grand Slam-winning best at a number of different points under Petchey's guidance - including in her tight defeat to world No1 Aryna Sabalenka last week. But due to the short-term nature of their partnership, Petchey has kept up his commitments as a television pundit for Tennis Channel. And as Petchey explained this week, the duo are yet to find a solution for managing the combination of roles long-term. 'I think, at the moment, we are a bit more short term,' Petchey told the Nothing Ventured Podcast. 'She's practising this week in London and her next tournament is in Washington, and she'll stay in the States the whole time. 'Our situation is a little fluid at the moment. I am going to help her this week as much as I can. I have some other commitments I can't get out of. 'We are very aware she needs a second coach to come on board and maybe just one coach, not me, as well. 'All I am trying to do is facilitate the best possible environment for Emma to produce the tennis she can. 'Whether that involves me or does not involve me is not a question that I'm worried about. We are just trying to find something that will be stable or good for her.' Should Raducanu look to appoint a new permanent coach, that would be the star's ninth since her miraculous win in Flushing Meadows. Petchey has previously been absent from Raducanu's player box due to his work as a pundit, notably during her first French Open match against Wang Xinyu, where she instead relied upon the presence of his 23-year-old daughter Myah to represent a 'Mini Mark'. The pundit was also unavailable during preparation for Queen's, with Raducanu getting back in touch with her coach from earlier this year, Nick Cavaday, after he was forced to step back from the role for health reasons. But Raducanu will need greater permanence in her corner for the start of the US hard-court swing this summer. As per Telegraph Sport, a clash of schedules during the Canadian Open for Petchey's television role in Toronto could leave Raducanu without a coach in Montreal for a week. Petchey is thought to have discussed Raducanu with a number of coaches at the Championships, including Jannik SInner's current coach, Darren Cahill. And any potential new team member will likely have been tempted into working with Raducanu after watching her impressive display against Sabalenka on Centre Court. 'It was a great tennis match,' Petchey continued. 'It's been pretty positive from a point of view you can reflect on the fact the match was great, and get feedback from people talking about it. 'I've sought out opinions from people I respect in the industry, coaches, asking them what they felt about the match and what she could have done better and that gives you a chance to formulate a plan going forward for this week and in the future.'
The Independent
09-07-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Emma Raducanu needs a permanent coach and I cannot commit to it
Mark Petchey admits Emma Raducanu needs a permanent coach but says it will not be him. Raducanu has enjoyed some positive results since linking up with the former British number one on an informal basis in March. The 22-year-old reached the third round at Wimbledon after knocking out Mimi Xu and former champion Marketa Vondrousova before giving world number one Aryna Sabalenka a scare in a narrow 7-6 (6) 6-4 defeat. But Petchey insists his TV commentating commitments mean he cannot take on the role full-time. 'I think at the moment we are a bit more short term,' he told the Nothing Ventured podcast. 'She's practising this week in London and her next tournament is Washington, and she'll stay in the States the whole time. 'Our situation is a little fluid at the moment. I am going to help her this week as much as I can, I have some other commitments I can't get out of. 'We are very aware she needs a second coach to come on board and maybe just one coach, not me, as well. 'All I am trying to do is facilitate the best possible environment for Emma to produce the tennis she can. 'Whether that involves me or does not involve me is not a question that I'm worried about. We are just trying to find something that will be stable or good for her.' The Sabalenka match thrilled a late-night Centre Court crowd and offered more encouragement that Raducanu can return to the level which carried her to the US Open title in 2021. 'It was a great tennis match,' added Petchey, 54. 'It's been pretty positive from a point of view you can reflect on the fact the match was great, and get feedback from people talking about it. 'I've sought out opinions from people I respect in the industry, coaches, asking them what they felt about the match and what she could have done better and that gives you a chance to formulate a plan going forward for this week and in the future.'
Times
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Times
Settled coaching staff can help Emma Raducanu get back to the top
T he tears had barely dried by the time Emma Raducanu looked to the future late on Friday night by addressing the coaching setup that appears unsustainable if she is to challenge the world's best players on a regular basis. About half an hour earlier, Raducanu had walked off Centre Court to a standing ovation after pushing the top seed Aryna Sabalenka hard in a dramatic third-round clash. The 22-year-old was disappointed that her considerable effort yielded no better than a straight-sets defeat, and the emotion understandably soon came flooding out when she returned to the locker room. Also fuelling the dejection was the realisation that time may now have to be called on a coaching partnership she has thoroughly enjoyed in the past three months. Mark Petchey has become a trusted mentor ever since he stepped in to help her on an informal basis at the Miami Open, but the upcoming US hard-court swing will make it difficult for him to continue juggling the coaching of Raducanu with his broadcast commitments. As a commentator and pundit on American television for the Tennis Channel, he is about to enter his busiest period of the year.
