{"id":16342,"date":"2025-07-25T20:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/emma-raducanu-leylah-fernandez-reach-the-semi-finals-at-dc-open\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:48:47","slug":"emma-raducanu-leylah-fernandez-reach-the-semi-finals-at-dc-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/emma-raducanu-leylah-fernandez-reach-the-semi-finals-at-dc-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu, Leylah Fernandez reach the semi-finals at DC Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Emma Laducanu has won her biggest semi-final since the 2021 US Open title, reaching her final four at the DC Open, eliminating Maria Saccari 6-4, 7-5 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On a sultry day when temperatures reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), Radkanu took a medical timeout, kicking out 5-2 in the second set, before engaging in the final five games of the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to say the heat is pretty good, but today I was really struggling,&#8221; said 18-year-old Radkanu, who was the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam Singles Strophy. &#8220;This was one of the toughest matches I&#8217;ve ever played. &#8230; Point in the second set, I wobbled a bit. I&#8217;m happy I was able to close it, and it was a two-set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the semi-finals of the WTA 500 Hard Court Tournament are Leila Fernandez, runner-up at Radocanu at Flushing Meadows four years ago. Fernandez scored a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over qualifying Taylor Townsend on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Next up after Fernandez will be facing 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rivakina, the highest remaining seed on the field at No. 3, or No. 5 Magdanella Fletch, the player who defeated Venus Williams on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Radukanu&#8217;s semi-final opponent will be fourth Clara Towson or Anna Karinkaya on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first man to reach the semi-finals is Corentinmut, the 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 winner at 2021 US Open champion Danil Medvedev. The match was about an hour behind in the third set due to lightning in the area.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Emma Laducanu has won her biggest semi-final since the 2021 US Open title, reaching her final four at the DC Open, eliminating Maria Saccari 6-4, 7-5 on Friday. On a sultry day when temperatures reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), Radkanu took a medical timeout, kicking out 5-2 in the second set, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[327,419,4776,32,4723,197,1849,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-16342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma","9":"tag-fernandez","10":"tag-leylah","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-raducanu","13":"tag-reach","14":"tag-semifinals","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}