Emma Raducanu’s Miami Open run ends in quarter-final loss to Jessica Pegula

Emma Raducanu’s spectacular run to the Miami Open quarter-finals has come to an finish by the hands of fourth seed Jessica Pegula.

The American survived a mid-match surge from Raducanu en path to a tricky 6-4 6-7 (3) 6-2 victory.

The British quantity two had quite a few alternatives to snag momentum through the match, however repeatedly allow them to slip via her fingers.

Raducanu transformed simply one in all her six alternatives to interrupt Pegula’s fearsome serve, and regardless of rallying within the second set to pressure a decider, was in the end unable to match Pegula within the third.

Regardless of the loss, Raducanu’s run to the ultimate eight in Miami marked her greatest efficiency in a match since being topped 2021 US Open champion.

Pegula gave credit score to Raducanu’s efficiency in her post-match feedback.

She mentioned: “It was powerful. I performed an excellent first set, a bit let down within the second, obtained it again, went up 2-0 within the tiebreak, however it sort of flipped.

“She began shifting the ball very well, serving good… typically it simply occurs, however I simply wished to come back out within the third actually sturdy, actually fast, and simply sort of soar on her and never preserve the third set too shut.”

Pegula will face 19-year-old wild card Alexandra Eala within the semi-finals, after the Filipino upset world quantity two Iga Swiatek 6-2 7-5 of their quarter-final conflict.

There was additionally a shock outcome within the males’s match, with high seed Alexander Zverev falling to French seventeenth seed Arthur Fils.

The German seemed unfazed within the first set earlier than Fils seemingly discovered his toes, wrapping up the shock 3-6 6-3 6-4 victory in simply over two hours.

And Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov outlasted Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo in a three-set battle, which took nearly three hours.