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Radukanu advances to Korea Open round of 16 tennis … Han Na-rae has been eliminated (overall)

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Emma Radukanu meets Korean fans

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyun-woo Shin = During the women’s professional tennis tour (WTA) Hana Bank Korea Open single round of 32 match between Yuuka Uchima (Japan) and Emma Radukanu (UK) at the park tennis court Songpa Olympic -gu, Seoul on 21st. Emma Radukanu, who won 2-0 (6-2 6-4), meets the fans before leaving the stadium. 9/21/2022 [email protected]

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dongchan Kim = Emma Radukanu (77th, UK), who won the women’s singles at the US Open tennis tournament last year, the single at the Hana Bank Korea Open (total cash prize of $ 251,750) on the Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour. It went to round 2

Radukanu defeated Uchijima Yuuka (126th, Japan) 2-0 (6-2 6-4) in the first round of the third day of the tournament held at Olympic Park tennis court in Songpa-gu, Seoul on 21st.

Radukanu, who received the 6th seed, will face Yanina Wickmeier (460th, Belgium) in the round of 16.

Radukanu, who was the only winner of last year’s WTA Tour singles championship at the WTA Tour and beyond, was eliminated in the first round this year and the world rankings, which climbed to 10th place, collapsed. at 80 °.

Radukanu, currently in 77th place, is aiming for a rebound at this year’s Korea Open.

Radukanu led 5-0 in 2 sets and gave up 4 games in a row, and in the next game he was hit with a 30-40 break, but kept the game at the end of the two and confirmed to move on to the round of 16. final in 1 hour and 19 minutes.

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Emma Radukanu against Uchijima Yuyukawa
Emma Radukanu against Uchijima Yuyukawa

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Journalist Shin Hyeon-woo = Uchijima Yuuka (Japan) and Emma Radukanu (England) played in the 32-match single-player round at the Hana Bank Korea Open on the Women’s Professional Tennis Tour (WTA) held in Olympic Park tennis court in Songpa-gu, Seoul on 21st. Emma Radukanu hits the ball. 9/21/2022 [email protected]

Radukanu’s second round opponent, born in 2002, Wickmeier, is a veteran born in 1989.

Wickmeier defeated Linda Pruvirtova (74a, Czech Republic) 2-0 (6-1 6-4) in the previous match.

Although currently ranked 400th, he rose to number 12 on the world singles ranking in 2010 and reached the semifinals of the 2009 US Open in singles.

After giving birth in April last year, she returned to the field in February this year, a “playing mother”.

Pruvirtova, who lost to Wickmeier, is a 17-year-old rookie who won the WTA Tour Chennai Open (total prize money of $ 251,750) which concluded in Chennai, India on the 18th.

After winning the championship, he quickly moved to Seoul to play the game but was eliminated in the first round.

Han Na-rae (212th, Bucheon City Hall), the only Korean player to advance to the second round of the singles final, lost to second-seed Ekaterina Alexandrova (24th, Russia) 0-2 (1- 6 3-6) and was eliminated.

As a result, only Han Na-rae and Jang Su-jeong (Daegu City Hall) in doubles were left as Korean players in this tournament.

Zhu Lin (70th, China), who won the Korea Open held with the WTA 125K series, one degree lower than last year’s tour, defeated Ankita Reina (329, India) 2-0 (6-1 6-3) in the second round and made it to the quarter-finals.

In the quarter-finals, Zurin will face another “mother player” Tatiana Maria (80th, Germany), who reached the quarter-finals in Wimbledon this year.

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