Raducanu misses three match points, loses to Krejcikova in Seoul

Emma Raducanu missed three match points and was defeated by Barbora Krejcikova in a dramatic second round match at the Korea Open in Seoul on Thursday, losing 4-6, 7-6 (12-10), 6-1 in nearly three hours. The British number one had served for the match in the second set but was unable to close out the Czech former Wimbledon champion, who rallied to reach the quarterfinals.

Raducanu, 22, had opened her Seoul campaign with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Jaqueline Cristian on Wednesday, a match delayed by rain, and arrived in the round of 16 hoping to defend the quarterfinal points she earned at the event last year. She led by a set and served for victory at 5-3 in the second set, and held match points in a tightly contested tiebreak, but Krejcikova saved the opportunities and edged the breaker before running away with the decider. Match reports put the duration at about two hours and 52 minutes.

Krejcikova, who has battled injuries this season but reached the US Open quarterfinals last month, described the turnaround after the match. In an oncourt interview she said it was a difficult match, that she had been very down and did not know how she had turned it around, and that the crowd's...