Raducanu and Halep on course for Transylvania Open showdown

Raducanu
celebrated
her
first
WTA
Tour
win
at
the
expense
of
Polona
Hercog
in
Cluj
on
Tuesday
and
followed
that
up
with
a
6-3
6-4
defeat
of
Ana
Bogdan.

The
18-year-old
US
Open
champion
had
a
first-serve
percentage
of
69
and
won
87
per
cent
of
those
points,
breaking
three
times
to
move
into
the
last
eight.

Third
seed
Raducanu
said:
“It’s
definitely
taking
me
some
time
to
find
my
feet
still.
I’m
just
taking
some
learnings
from
every
match
that
I
play.
I
don’t
think
I’m
the
finished
product
yet.”

There’s
that
match-point
serve
again
????

????????

@EmmaRaducanu
beats
Bogdan
in
Cluj
to
set
up
a
quarterfinal
against
Kostyuk!#TransylvaniaOpen
pic.twitter.com/Vsp9lRAd01

—
wta
(@WTA)

October
28,
2021

Next
up
for
the
Brit
is
a
meeting
with
fellow
teenager
Marta
Kostyuk
after
the
sixth
seed
sent
Mona
Barthel
packing
with
a
6-4
6-4
victory.

Halep
was
troubled
by
a
back
injury
in
a
6-4
6-2
success
over
Varvara
Gracheva
in
her
homeland.

The
two-time
grand
slam
champion
played
through
the
pain
barrier,
breaking
twice
in
each
set
to
progress,
and
could
face
Raducanu
if
she
beats
fellow
Romanian
Jaqueline
Cristian.

“The
back
got
blocked
and
the
pain
is
really
big,”
Halep
said
in
the
on-court
interview.
“You
cannot
really
bend
much
and
you
cannot
move.

“But
sometimes
you
are
used
to
the
pain,
I
had
this
before
many
times,
and
I
just
wanted
to
continue
and
finish
this
match.
It’s
good
that
I
won
this
match,
I
don’t
know
how.”

Anett
Kontaveit,
striving
to
secure
a
WTA
Finals
berth,
extended
her
indoor
winning
run
to
12
matches
by
seeing
off
Alison
Van
Uytvanck
6-3
6-4,
while
Rebecca
Peterson
knocked
Irina
Bara
out
in
straight
sets.

In
the
Courmayeur
Open,
Jasmine
Paolini
came
out
on
top
6-4
7-5
in
an
all-Italian
battle
with
Lucrezia
Stefanini
and
Zhang
Shuai
got
past
Wang
Xinyu
7-6
(7-5)
6-4.

The
unseeded
Donna
Vekic
also
secured
a
place
in
the
quarter-finals.