EMMA RADUCANU’s Miami Open run is over following a gruelling clash with Jessica Pegula – in which she suffered from a concerning bout of dizziness.
The pair’s quarter-final clash lasted two-and-half hours before Pegula – the world’s richest tennis player – ending up besting the Brit.
Pegula, the No.4 seed, ended Raducanu’s impressive run in the competition with a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2 win.
There were brief medical concerns for Raducanu late in the second set as she suffered from a bout of dizziness.
But she continued after some medical treatment, which included having her blood taken, and played the third set.
Recalling her dizziness, the 22-year-old said: “I just felt really dizzy. I felt faint.
“I don’t know, it was very humid out there and we have a long wait.
“So maybe just an accumulation, and just physical points as well and there were long rallies and heavy conditions.
“But….yeah, I don’t know how I kind of regrouped in that second set, but in the third I definitely struggled a little bit.”
Defeat to Pegula, who’s the heiress to a £4billion fortune, has Raducanu assessing plans for her next tournament outing.
She said: “I’m not sure. I think I need to just take a beat and kind of just re-evaluate what I’m doing.
“This week it was good, but I need to just kind of figure things out and then I’ll make a plan from there.”
Raducanu had shown glimpses of the player who the US Open in 2021 in her run to the quarter-finals in Miami.
This past fortnight in Florida, she won four matches in a row to reach the quarter-finals of the prestigious Miami Open for the first time.
Though she has been to the latter stages of other events, this is her first last-eight appearance at a Masters 1000 tournament, the level below the Slams.
That was despite her recently AXING her now former coach Vladimir Platenik, who she parted company with last week.
Platenik, who was given the boot after just TWO WEEKS, told the BBC: “I totally understand Emma, she’s not in an easy position.
“The world is looking at her after the US Open [which she won in 2021] and everybody is expecting – including herself – what she is going to do next.
“So for me it’s absolutely understandable that she’s under a lot of pressure. She told me she was feeling stressed.
“There are no hard feelings from my side. She finished the relationship in a fair way, maybe too quickly, but this is tennis, this is sport. We need to respect that.
“She was not feeling okay, and that was her decision. I didn’t want to go into deeper communication about that.
“I think the player needs to feel good, and the player needs to make a decision.
“Sometimes you make a good decision, and sometimes bad.”
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