Australian Open 2022: US Open champion Emma Raducanu was once proven the door within the girls’s singles 2d around through Global No. 98 Danka Kovinic in Melbourne on Thursday.
US Open champion Emma Raducanu suffered a defeat within the 2d around of Australian Open 2022 (AP Picture)
HIGHLIGHTSEmma Raducanu was once slowed down through a hand harm on ThursdayRaducanu misplaced her 2d-round fit in 3 setsEarlier within the day, third seed Garbine Muguruza was once proven the door
US Open champion Emma Raducanu suffered a surprise go out within the 2d around of ladies’s singles at Australian Open 2022 on Thursday regardless of striking on a valiant display with an injured hand. She misplaced to Global No. 98 Danka Kovinic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a fit that prolonged to two hours and 38 mins on the Margaret Courtroom Area in Melbourne.
Emma Raducanu has misplaced a finished Grand Slam fit for the primary time in her nascent occupation because the 19-year-old had gained the USA Open in 2021 after getting into the principle draw in the course of the qualifiers. Raducanu appeared down and out as she misplaced the outlet set to Kovinic after struggling a hand harm.
On the other hand, the seventeenth seed picked herself up and compelled a decider. Within the ultimate set, she was once down a destroy however she broke again handiest to lose momentum and crash out of the season’s first Grand Slam.
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It was once the second one large disappointed of the day in girls’s singles after France’s Alize Cornet knocked former Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza out of the Australian Open in the second one around, frightening the Spaniard 6-3, 6-3.
Previous within the day, former No. 1-ranked Andy Murray misplaced to A hundred and twentieth-ranked Taro Daniel 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the second one around.
Murray handiest misplaced 5 video games in a best-of-five-set Davis Cup come upon towards Daniel of their handiest earlier come upon, and he had by no means misplaced to any person ranked above No. 91 at a big match.
However Daniel, a 28-year-old qualifier from Japan, broke within the 9th recreation of the 3rd set to take a 5-4 lead after which served it out to advance to the 3rd around of a big for the primary time.
In the meantime, Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas has complex to the 3rd around of the Australian Open with a 7-6 (1), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 win over Sebastian Baez in a fit that includes two former junior international No. 1 avid gamers.
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