{"id":37802,"date":"2026-01-16T02:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hobart-international-emma-raducanu-loses-to-taylah-preston-in-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:02:42","slug":"hobart-international-emma-raducanu-loses-to-taylah-preston-in-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hobart-international-emma-raducanu-loses-to-taylah-preston-in-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobart International: Emma Raducanu loses to Taylah Preston in quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Emma Raducanu’s Australian Open preparations suffered a blow as she was stunned by world number 204 Taylah Preston at the Hobart International.<\/b><\/p>\n

British number one Raducanu was the top seed at the event – her final one before the first Grand Slam of the year begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n

However, she will travel to Melbourne with just one win under her belt<\/a> after a 6-2 6-4 quarter-final defeat by Australia’s Preston.<\/p>\n

Raducanu was particularly inconsistent on serve, committing four double faults and holding in only three of her nine service games.<\/p>\n

She was twice a break up in both sets, but could not press home her advantage in another rain-affected match.<\/p>\n

After going 4-2 down in the opening set, coach Francisco Roig could be heard urging her to “let it rip” and “don’t be static”.<\/p>\n

However, she could not serve to stay in the set, planting a backhand into the net to give her opponent the lead.<\/p>\n

Raducanu struggled again at the start of the second set, remarking to Roig that Preston’s shots were coming at her “so fast”, but she managed to establish a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

However, she lost her next three service games in a row as Preston advanced to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Emma Raducanu’s Australian Open preparations suffered a blow as she was stunned by world number 204 Taylah Preston at the Hobart International. British number one Raducanu was the top seed at the event – her final one before the first Grand Slam of the year begins on Sunday. However, she will travel to Melbourne with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37804,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions\/37804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}