{"id":38618,"date":"2026-02-06T02:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/emma-raducanu-storms-into-cluj-semi-finals-with-win-over-maja-chwalinska-sonay-kartal-beaten\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:30:47","slug":"emma-raducanu-storms-into-cluj-semi-finals-with-win-over-maja-chwalinska-sonay-kartal-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/emma-raducanu-storms-into-cluj-semi-finals-with-win-over-maja-chwalinska-sonay-kartal-beaten\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu storms into Cluj semi-finals with win over Maja Chwalinska, Sonay Kartal beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top seed Raducanu has now won her first three matches since splitting with coach Francis Roig after a lacklustre second-round exit at January&#8217;s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is now into a first semi-final since the Washington Open in July and victory will see her reach a first final since the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu will next face Ukraine&#8217;s Oleksandra Oliynykova, who claimed her first top-50 win against Chinese fourth seed Wang Xinyu to reach a first WTA Tour semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With temporary tattoos of bats across her face &#8211; a nod to Transylvania&#8217;s folklore and nature &#8211; Oliynykova saved 21 out of 23 break points against Wang to win 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Boulter also triumphed on Thursday, beating Czech Linda Fruhvirtova 6-3 6-2 to reach the Ostrava Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a first semi-final appearance for the 29-year-old Briton since she won the Paris Challenger title in May last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After struggling for consistency throughout 2025, Boulter split with long-term coach Biljana Veselinovic and hired Michael Joyce to help her freshen up her game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will face American world number 96 Katie Volynets for a place in the final in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cwy19wvnlgro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Raducanu has now won her first three matches since splitting with coach Francis Roig after a lacklustre second-round exit at January&#8217;s Australian Open. She is now into a first semi-final since the Washington Open in July and victory will see her reach a first final since the US Open. Raducanu will next face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38619,"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\/38618"}],"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=38618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38620,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions\/38620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}