{"id":9923,"date":"2026-03-06T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:42:52","slug":"emma-raducanu-british-number-one-impresses-in-indian-wells-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9923","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: British number one impresses in Indian Wells opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Emma Raducanu made an impressive start to her Indian Wells campaign by recording a comprehensive straight-sets victory over Russian Anastasia Zakharova.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Raducanu was all smiles as she waved to the crowd after completing the 6-1 6-3 win at the prestigious WTA 1,000 event in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old, who received a first-round bye as the 25th seed, could face world number six Amanda Anisimova in the third round &#8211; if the American can overcome Russian Anna Blinkova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following Raducanu&#8217;s second-round exit at the Australian Open in January, the 2021 US Open champion reached only the second final of her career in Cluj but then failed to win a match in Doha or Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a promising start to her Indian Wells campaign, she won 80% of points behind her first serve and conceded just six points across her four service games in a dominant first-set display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 86th-ranked Zakharova, 24, resisted a break point in the opening game of the second &#8211; but Raducanu held to love before forcing the breakthrough at the next opportunity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu made an impressive start to her Indian Wells campaign by recording a comprehensive straight-sets victory over Russian Anastasia Zakharova. British number one Raducanu was all smiles as she waved to the crowd after completing the 6-1 6-3 win at the prestigious WTA 1,000 event in California. The 23-year-old, who received a first-round bye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}