Emma Raducanu facing scheduling nightmare after Korea Open quarter-final is postponed

Raducanu could present play doubly connected Saturday if she comes done her past 8 showdown with Kasatkina owed to dense rainfall successful Seoul

Emma Raducanu's Korea Open quarter-final with Daria Kasatkina has been rained off.

Raducanu was owed to play the apical effect connected Friday morning, but dense rainfall successful Seoul has forced each play to beryllium abandoned for the day. The 21-year-old volition present play connected Saturday and if she wins volition person to instrumentality to tribunal aboriginal that time for a semi-final.

Raducanu has shown promising signs during her 2 victories successful the tourney truthful far, battling hard to bushed apical 50 players Peyton Stearns and Yue Yuan connected her mode to the past eight. She is looking to marque conscionable her 2nd ever WTA Tour semi-final, having besides reached the past 4 successful Nottingham successful June, but she volition person a pugnacious trial against the world fig 13.

Kasatkina bushed Raducanu successful the quarter-finals successful Eastbourne successful the week earlier Wimbledon. Matches betwixt Diana Shnaider and Marta Kostyuk, Polina Kudermetova and Beatriz Haddad Maia and Viktoriya Tomova against Veronika Kudermetova are besides abandoned.

Raducanu was peculiarly awesome with her service passim her straight-sets triumph implicit Chinese eighth effect Yue, producing 11 aces including 8 during the 2nd set. Her serves helped her scope a 5th WTA quarter-final this twelvemonth and she admitted it is thing she has been moving on.

"If you ticker my service implicit the past fewer months, since the clay play it's gone done a batch of iterations successful presumption of swing," Raducanu told the WTA website afterwards. "In general, if you play a batch of tournaments, things determination retired of spot without you truly realising, and past it's harder to get the earthy feeling back.

"We've been moving hard the past week looking astatine the swing, and which plaything suits maine best. It's been beauteous large changes, it's not similar we're conscionable changing the shot placement. Me and my manager decided we were going to instrumentality a hazard and we were going to tweak things. We cognize it mightiness not wage disconnected short-term.

"But 1 happening I bash backmost myself connected is I prime things up beauteous quickly. In the archetypal lucifer it didn't transportation yet, but contiguous it decidedly did. I conscionable person to deliberation bigger-picture. My goals are finishing this play beardown but inevitably to acceptable myself up successful the champion mode imaginable for adjacent year, due to the fact that adjacent twelvemonth I truly privation to deed the crushed running."