Australian Open 2022: US Open champion Emma Raducanu bows out after shock defeat in 2nd spherical

Australian Open 2022: US Open champion Emma Raducanu was proven the door within the ladies’s singles 2nd spherical by World No. 98 Danka Kovinic in Melbourne on Thursday. US Open champion Emma Raducanu suffered a defeat within the 2nd spherical of Australian Open 2022 (AP Photo)HIGHLIGHTSEmma Raducanu was slowed down by a hand harm on ThursdayRaducanu misplaced her 2nd-round match in three unitsEarlier within the day, third seed Garbine Muguruza was proven the doorUS Open champion Emma Raducanu suffered a shock exit within the 2nd spherical of girls’s singles at Australian Open 2022 on Thursday regardless of placing on a valiant present with an injured hand. She misplaced to World No. 98 Danka Kovinic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a match that prolonged to 2 hours and 38 minutes on the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne.

Emma Raducanu has misplaced a accomplished Grand Slam match for the primary time in her nascent profession because the 19-year-old had gained the US Open in 2021 after coming into the principle draw by means of the qualifiers. Raducanu seemed down and out as she misplaced the opening set to Kovinic after struggling a hand harm.However, the seventeenth seed picked herself up and compelled a decider. In the ultimate set, she was down a break however she broke again solely to lose momentum and crash out of the season’s first Grand Slam.Lovely to fulfill you @EmmaRaducanuWe look ahead to hanging out once more quickly.#AusOpen #AO2022 pic.twitter.com/ralqWz03nv— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 20, 2022
It was the second massive upset of the day in ladies’s singles after France’s Alize Cornet knocked former Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza out of the Australian Open within the second spherical, upsetting the Spaniard 6-3, 6-3.Earlier within the day, former No. 1-ranked Andy Murray misplaced to A hundred and twentieth-ranked Taro Daniel 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 within the second spherical.Murray solely misplaced 5 video games in a best-of-five-set Davis Cup encounter towards Daniel of their solely earlier encounter, and he had by no means misplaced to anybody ranked above No. 91 at a serious match.But Daniel, a 28-year-old qualifier from Japan, broke within the ninth recreation of the third set to take a 5-4 lead after which served it out to advance to the third spherical of a serious for the primary time.Meanwhile, Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas has superior to the third spherical of the Australian Open with a 7-6 (1), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 win over Sebastian Baez in a match that includes two former junior world No. 1 gamers.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.