Emma Raducanu suffers fresh injury setback and pulls out of Korea Open

Emma Raducanu’s wounded problems struck again arsenic she retired from her Korea Open quarter-final against apical effect Daria Kasatkina.

The 21-year-old Briton had conscionable mislaid the archetypal acceptable 6-1 erstwhile she withdrew having struggled with a ft issue.

Raducanu had antecedently beaten 2 top-50 players successful Seoul en way to the past eight, successful American Peyton Stearns and China’s Yue Yuan.

Looking to marque conscionable her 2nd ever WTA Tour semi-final, having besides reached the past 4 successful Nottingham successful June, the 2021 US Open champion initially saw her lucifer against satellite fig 13 Kasatkina rained disconnected connected Friday.

When the contention past did get nether mode connected Saturday, Raducanu – who spoke earlier this week of wanting to play arsenic galore matches arsenic imaginable earlier the extremity of the play – was breached by her Russian hostile successful the 2nd game.

She instantly broke back, but was incapable to physique connected that and, aft Kasatkina had wrapped up the set, Raducanu went implicit and shook her manus having decided owed to the ft occupation that she would not continue.

‘I consciousness atrocious for Emma … it’s casual to get injured, particularly heavy into these tournaments,’ Kasatkina said.

‘I privation her a speedy recovery.’

The victor of the clash betwixt 4th effect Diana Shnaider and 5th effect Marta Kostyuk volition conscionable Kasatkina successful the semi-finals aboriginal connected Saturday, aft rainfall washed retired Friday’s play successful Seoul.

Earlier successful the day, Brazilian 3rd effect Beatriz Haddad Maia brushed speech fortunate loser Polina Kudermetova 6-2 6-1 to acceptable up a last-four clash with Veronika Kudermetova, who bushed Viktoriya Tomova 7-5 6-3. 

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