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Emma Raducanu facing two matches in one day after rain causes chaos to Queen’s schedule

Emma Raducanu facing two matches in one day after rain causes chaos to Queen’s schedule

Published by Sam Flores

Emma Raducanu and mini resets are as much part of the British tennis landscape as Queen’s and rain delays (Exhibit A: today’s weather in London). But the British No 1 struck a confident figure both during and after her 6-0, 6-3 win over over qualifier Anna Blinkova on Tuesday. Enough to suggest that the green green grass of home may be what her season needed after year of mis-starts, inaction and frustration. Obviously one match does not make a summer and the real tests are to come, starting with her match against Sorana Cîrstea in west London today. Yet, Raducanu sounded upbeat after the win on Tuesday saying (via writing on a TV camera) that she was happy to be “back home”, hinting at the possibility that this will not be another false dawn. “Despite not having played a lot of matches, I was really pleased with how I came out and was playing very free,” the world No 42 said. “I think I was just feeding off of the atmosphere, and it felt free, …

Live tennis on TV and streaming today | Full ATP and WTA schedules

Live tennis on TV and streaming today | Full ATP and WTA schedules

Published by Daniella Wilson

Clay court season motors with the start of the Italian Open in Rome this week. Much of the talk ahead of the ATP/WTA 1000 tournament will be about the two World No. 1s – Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka. Sinner arrives home in Italy after winning a record fifth consecutive Masters title in Madrid, while Sabalenka will be looking to bounce back from her early exit in Spain. Sky Sports dominates tennis coverage in the UK with regular action on a weekly basis after signing a new deal to show all the biggest games through to 2028. Grand Slam events are a little more evenly distributed across multiple broadcasters, including the BBC, but we’ll bring you all the details as and when they are confirmed. We will bring you a regularly updated list of all the live tennis streaming from across the globe on a weekly basis, with plenty to look forward to in 2025. Radio Times brings you a round-up of live tennis on TV today and coming up. Tennis today: What live tennis …

Katie Boulter continues 2026 revival with opening round win at Miami Open

Katie Boulter continues 2026 revival with opening round win at Miami Open

Published by Sam Flores

Boulter may come to regret all those chances she had to take the set, as Bouzas Maneiro takes a 3-0 lead in the tie break. Boulter gets on the scoreboard in the tie break with a serve that Bouzas Maneiro can’t return, but then misses the volley she had expertly set up. 5-1. It would take something very impressive for Boulter to get back into this tie break now, but she pulls it back to 5-2. Boulter takes the risk and goes for the line, but narrowly misses and Bouzas Maneiro has four set points. Bouzas Maneiro makes a mistake with the first, and Boulter wins next two. 6-5. On her serve, Boulter capitalises on a net-cord ball that bounced favourably from Bouzas Maneiro and draws level! But Bouzas Maneiro wins the next point on Boulter’s second serve and has another set point. Boulter has come back into this contest time and again and draws level again 7-7, and then edges ahead. It’s Boulter who has set point now…but it’s saved by a stunning winner …

Emma Raducanu beaten by ‘lucky loser’ after needing medical help in Dubai

Emma Raducanu beaten by ‘lucky loser’ after needing medical help in Dubai

Published by Sam Flores

Raducanu finally registers her first point of the match, courtesy of an error from Ruzic, who finds the net with a backhand. That then gives Raducanu to win the next point with a strong backhand across the court to go 30-0 up. Raducanu sends down her first ace of the match, with Ruzic unable to get across to her right to return. Raducanu thought she was going to win the game to love but a forehand shot that should have been the winner goes out. Ruzic keeps the game alive with a lovely forehand winner and now Raducanu is under a bit of pressure; she looked like she was easing to the game to love but now needs to win the next point to save the game going to deuce. Raducanu goes long and we do go to deuce. Ruzic then wins the next point at the end of a lengthy rally and suddenly the Croatian has gone from 40-0 down to now having a break point. Raducanu needed that though, at risk of being …

Emma Raducanu retires from Qatar Open after having on-court blood-pressure test

Emma Raducanu retires from Qatar Open after having on-court blood-pressure test

Published by Sam Flores

In a scenario that some will find frustratingly familiar, Emma Raducanu retired from her opening match in Doha after having her blood pressure checked by the doctor. It was a surprise, in some ways, that Raducanu even took the court for this meeting with qualifier Camila Osorio. She had looked thoroughly exhausted while playing the final – her first in five years – in Cluj-Napoca on Saturday, and was then only able to take one day off between events. Although Raducanu played some solid percentage tennis to claim the opening set – the first set she has ever won in three visits to Doha – her energy levels seemed to fall away as Osorio broke her serve midway through the second and then hung on to set up a decider. Few would have backed Raducanu to come through a test of stamina, and indeed she dropped serve again immediately before being visited by the doctor. Although she returned to the court for one last Osorio service game, she was barely moving as a series of …

Weary Emma Raducanu suffers heavy defeat in first final since 2021

Weary Emma Raducanu suffers heavy defeat in first final since 2021

Published by Sam Flores

Good afternoon and welcome to coverage of the Transylvania Open final featuring top seed Emma Raducanu and third seed Sorana Cirstea. Raducanu is contesting her first final since 2021, when she made that fairytale run to the championship match and US Open title after coming through qualifying. The British No 1 has played some great tennis this week, coming back from a 5-0 deficit against Kaja Juvan in the second round and making lightwork of Greet Minnen and Maja Chwalinska in between. In her semi-final, Raducanu dropped her first set of the week against Oleksandra Oliynykova, coming through 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. The British No 1 was pleased with how she fought through in the three-set tussle: “I’m most proud of how I competed, came back in the third set, I don’t know if I could’ve done it without everyone’s support,” she said during her on court interview afterwards. “I really feel like I’m at home here, thank you so much everyone.” Her opponent Cirstea is a home favourite who Raducanu has met once before – …

Emma Raducanu vanquishes ‘bat girl’ to reach first final since US Open

Emma Raducanu vanquishes ‘bat girl’ to reach first final since US Open

Published by Sam Flores

Raducanu should have won this match more easily. Oliynykova is ranked inside the world’s top 100 but her win against Chinese fourth seed Wang Xinyu in her quarter-final was her first against a top-50 opponent and this was her first WTA Tour semi-final. However, there were signs right from the off that the “bat girl” might prove a pain in the neck for Raducanu. Raducanu’s cleaner ball-striking and fewer errors eventually saw her break her opponent at 4-4 in the first set and the 23-year-old served out to love. But after going 3-1 up at the start of the second set, Raducanu lost focus. Her first-serve percentage dropped, her unforced error count crept up and three breaks of serve in four service games allowed Oliynykova, showing Dracula-like powers of resurrection and hitting endless moon balls, to level at one set all. The deciding set, for which Raducanu changed her outfit, was a mad, see-sawing affair. Raducanu went a break down, then won four games on the trot (including a run of 16 straight points at …

Inconsistent Emma Raducanu sets up semi-final against ‘Bat Girl’

Inconsistent Emma Raducanu sets up semi-final against ‘Bat Girl’

Published by Sam Flores

Hello and welcome to coverage from the Transylvania Open as Emma Raducanu bids to reach the semi-finals in Cluj-Napoca. The British No 1 has safely come through her first two matches in straight sets and today faces Maja Chwalinska of Poland. This is the first match up between them but Raducanu is the clear favourite over her opponent, who is ranked 146 in the world. On Wednesday, Raducanu’s battling qualities where on display as she fought back from 5-0 down in the first set to beat Kaja Juvan 7-5, 6-1. The tournament top seed won 10 straight games and 13 of the final 14 to see off the Slovenian and seal a place in the quarter-final. Afterwards she said to the crowd in the Romanian city of Cluj: “Thank you for the support, it really got me through some tricky moments in that first set. “I have to say Kaja was playing some great tennis, was putting me on the back foot straightaway. I thought I was being aggressive, going for my shots, but I …

Emma Raducanu beats world No 196 after sluggish start at Australian Open

Emma Raducanu beats world No 196 after sluggish start at Australian Open

Published by Sam Flores

At least Raducanu was able to get out of Melbourne Park by midnight or so, whereas she might have been there until the wee small hours if Alexander Bublik had taken any longer to dispose of Jenson Brooksby in the previous night-session match. The efficiency of her comeback allowed her to spend only 71 minutes on court. She was in a buoyant mood by the time she arrived in the interview room, even if she admitted that she would probably find it hard to sleep. “Tonight, to wind down after a late match, that’s one side that maybe the viewers and spectators don’t understand,” she said. “By the time we finish with our routines afterward, cool down, the adrenalin is so high, to switch off is very difficult. So I’m really excited to have two days off. Given the quick turnaround from Hobart, I think my body will appreciate it.” Dealing with the quirks of the daily schedule can be surprisingly difficult, as British No 1 Cameron Norrie also pointed out on Sunday. Having arrived …

Emma Raducanu wins first match in 109 days after rain delays

Emma Raducanu wins first match in 109 days after rain delays

Published by Sam Flores

Hello and welcome to coverage of Emma Raducanu’s first WTA match of the season. The British No 1 is building up towards the Australian Open, which begins on Sunday by playing at the Hobart International. She is the top seed and arguably the favourite to win the tournament, which would be her first since the 2021 US Open. Fellow grand slam winners Venus Williams and Barbora Krejcikova were also in the draw but were knocked out in round one.  Today, Raducanu faces Colombia’s Camila Osorio in their second career meeting. “I’m really grateful to be here in Hobart and to see Tasmania. I’m just happy to be here,” Raducanu said. “It’s somewhere I didn’t think I’d get the opportunity to go if it wasn’t for tennis, so I’m really happy that it has brought me here. “So far, I’ve been practising pretty well,” Raducanu said. “I started my preseason pretty late, so for me it’s all about sharpening up and tuning up as much as I can. I hope this week can be a good …