{"id":17079,"date":"2021-07-06T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121296"},"modified":"2021-07-06T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:00:21","slug":"wimbledon-emma-raducanu-withdraws-after-struggling-with-her-breathing-against-ajla-tomljanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-emma-raducanu-withdraws-after-struggling-with-her-breathing-against-ajla-tomljanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon: Emma Raducanu withdraws after struggling with her breathing against Ajla Tomljanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu\u2019s extraordinary story at Wimbledon came to an end after she was forced to retire from her match against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Having only played one WTA Tour-level match before this tournament, the teenage sensation has quickly become the story of the Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But she was noticeably struggling to breathe having lost the opening set. She took a medical timeout after consulting with the trainer and doctor, where it was deemed she could not continue.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for Raducanu\u2019s retirement had been \u201cdifficulty breathing\u201d. This was confirmed by Wimbledon late on Monday night. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI am actually shocked because Emma must be hurt if she came to the decision to retire,\u201d Tomljanovic said on court. \u201cI am really sorry for her, I wish we could have finished it. I am wishing her all the best.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">I thought I found my groove although Emma was hurt and not at her best which kind of explains it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Raducanu was sitting her A-Level exams two months ago and until a month ago she had not even contested a match on the main WTA Tour. 18-year-old Raducanu dumped out Vitalia Diatchenko, in a whirlwind of a few days. She also defeated the 2019 French Open runner-up Marketa Vondrousova and 45th-ranked Romanian Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu, who is ranked 338 in the world, was cheered on by a boisterous crowd under the roof of Court One and she made a composed start to the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu\u2019s brilliant Wimbledon run comes to an end in the fourth round as she was forced to withdraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":37826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1975,2097,2099,2098,2100,250,2178],"class_list":["post-17079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-ajla-tomljanovic","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-marketa-vondrousova","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-vitalia-diatchenko","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta-tour"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}