Dayana Yastremska retires at Indian Wells, and Emma Raducanu advances to the third round.
After Dayana Yastremska, the opponent of the British player Emma Raducanu, quit due to sickness in the first set at Indian Wells, the player advances to round three.In the first set, Raducanu, 21, jumped out to a 4-0 lead in just eighteen minutes.
Between games, Yastremska, a Ukrainian, went to the back of the court, held her stomach, and eventually left the match when the doctors examined her.Raducanu will next play Aryna Sabalenka, a 25-year-old world number two.
The Belarusian, who triumphed in her Australian Open defense in January, rallied to defeat American Peyton Stearns 6-7 (2-7) 6-2 7-6 (8-6), surviving a third set tiebreak.
When asked about Yastremska’s condition, Raducanu responded, To be honest, I had no idea. It startled me since all I was trying to do was concentrate as much as I could on my side of the court, and I did a good job of it right away.
I felt horrible for Dayana because she’s been through a lot, and I detest seeing people hurt, even if I played very clean for four games. I feel so sorry for her. Illness and injury are the worst things that can happen to an athlete, and I know how horrible they are.Lorenzo Sonego loses to Cameron Norrie to advance to the third round.
Unknown symbol Raducanu used a deft drop shot to break Yastremska’s serve in the first game, and she dug in to save a break point in her next service game.The second break was sealed with a powerful backhand, and in the fourth game, Raducanu held comfortably.At their lone other meeting in 2022 in Portoroz, Slovenia, Yastremska also had to quit due to an injury.
Raducanu hasn’t won consecutively since she advanced to the fourth round of Indian Wells in March 2023 after winning three straight times.Gauff passes the Burel exam.United States: The 19-year-old Coco Gauff overcame Clara Burel with much difficulty, winning 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to guarantee her spot in the third round.
World No. 47 Burel won the first set and led 2-0 in the second before Gauff regained her flow and won 6-3 by breaking twice.Despite trailing 4-0 and 5-2 in the third and final set, world number three Gauff showed resiliency by winning six of the next eight games to force a tie-break, which she won on the third match point.
Gauff expressed his satisfaction with the mental battle with Sky Sports.My tennis wasn’t at its best. I’m satisfied with how I came across today. It doesn’t matter how you show up on good days; it matters how you show up on terrible ones.
Just four days before turning twenty, US Open champion Gauff became the first adolescent to win 50 WTA 1,000 matches with this victory.Naomi Osaka of Japan is one of the players who will be joining her in the third round after she defeated 14th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova of Russia 7-5, 6-3.
Two other seeds were eliminated as well. Anna Blinkova of Russia defeated American Jessica Pegula, the fifth-ranked player in the world, 6-2 3-6 6-3, and Yue Yuan of China defeated fellow countryman Qinwen Zheng 6-4 6-3.
However, Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, ranked 16th, advanced after defeating Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 2-6, 6-1.
