{"id":446602,"date":"2023-01-03T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=446602"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:15:43","slug":"emma-raducanu-begins-season-with-win-over-linda-fruhvirtova-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/emma-raducanu-begins-season-with-win-over-linda-fruhvirtova-in-auckland","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu begins season with win over Linda Fruhvirtova in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu won her first match of 2023 on the WTA Tour with a victory over Linda Fruhvirtova in the first round of the ASB Classic in Auckland. Raducanu dropped her first set to the 17-year-old from the Czech Republic, but bounced back to win the second and third despite a lengthy suspension due to rain. The 78th ranked Brit finished on top 4-6 6-4 6-2 against the relatively evenly matched Fruhvirtova, who is only one rank behind. Raducanu will face 24-year-old Viktoria Kuzmova from the Slovak Republic in the round of 16. The British number one is hoping for an injury-free year having struggled for form and fitness on the WTA tour since becoming the first qualifier to win a grand slam title when winning the US Open in 2021. Raducanu, who was made an MBE last month, has two other targets for 2023, telling wtatennis.com: &#8220;For a results goal I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s to win a title, and three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu won her first match of 2023 on the WTA Tour with a victory over Linda Fruhvirtova in the first round of the ASB Classic in Auckland.Raducanu dropped her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}