Emma Raducanu will play two matches in one day at Queen's Club after rain forced the postponement of all Thursday matches. The British No. 1 upset seventh seed Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-2 in the second round on Friday afternoon but must return to the Andy Murray Arena hours later for her quarter-final.
Raducanu and Cirstea briefly took to the court on Thursday but did not complete the warm-up before rain intervened. The match was finally cancelled at 6:30pm. When play resumed around 19 hours later, Raducanu wasted no time, racing to a 4-0 lead in just 17 minutes. Cirstea fought back, winning four of the next five games, but Raducanu held on to take the set.
In the second set, Raducanu broke early and again in the fifth game, serving for the match after one hour and 23 minutes. She converted her second match point as Cirstea netted a return, securing revenge for a 6-0, 6-2 loss in the Transylvania Open final in February.
Raducanu has dropped just nine games in her first two matches. She will face the winner of Harriet Dart versus Kamilla Rakhimova in the quarter-finals later Friday. Before her match, two other centre court contests will take place: Iva Jovic versus Amanda Anisimova, and Katie Boulter against Elena Rybakina.
Raducanu reached the quarter-finals at Queen's last year before losing to Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng. She aims to reach her second semi-final of the season after her Transylvania Open final run.
