After reaching her first semifinals of the season, Emma Raducanu lost already in the first round of the 2022 Ostrava Open.
Before flying to the Czech Republic, the 2021 US Open champion attended a Paris Fashion Week and also announced that she will compete at a prestigious exhibition event - 2022 Mubadala Championship - against Ons Jabeur. However when she got back on the court after recovering from minor injury, Emma Raducanu couldn't find her A game to surprise world no. 11, Daria Kasatkina.
At the 2022 Ostrava Open, former world number ten faced a very difficult draw as she faced the fifth-seeded Russian. From the first ball played it was obvious that Kasatkina came to dictate the play as she got an early break and 2-0 lead in the first set.
However, Raducanu showed her fighting spirit and got the break back and also, she got into the lead as she was 4-3 up in the first set. But after a series of bad service games, she eventually lost the first set 5-7 and faced a difficult task.
This task was to come back from one set down against a very consistent Kasatkina, but that proved impossible for the Brit. Her opponent was the only player that had break points in the second set and eventually won 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 32 minutes.
In the second round, Kasatkina will play against another Russian in the draw, Ekaterina Alexandrova, who defeated two-time Grand Slam champion, Victoria Azarenka in the first round.
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