Wimbledon 2021: Emma Raducanu’s fairytale run at the All England Club is over as she pulled out of her fourth-round match against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic.
The British teenager received a medical time-out at 0-3 in the second set, having lost an evenly matched first set that went with serve until Tomljanovic broke in the final game to take the set 6-4 – the first that Raducanu had dropped in her Championships run.
Raducanu had become the talk of Wimbledon in her first Grand Slam appearance, having only received her first ranking in 2018 and sitting 263 places below Tomljanovic, who has been on the Tour for nearly a decade.
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The Australian’s previous best result was a fourth-round showing at Roland-Garros in 2014.
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Tomljanovic came through this year with wins over qualifier Greet Minnen and Alize Cornet before recovering from 6-4, 2-0 down in her third-round match against Jelena Ostapenko.
She now plays No.1 seed, Ashleigh Barty, in the quarter-final.
Due to medical reasons, Emma Raducanu has retired from this match – but what an incredible run to the fourth round it was 💚 💜#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/fmp6M0twDw
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 5, 2021
World No.1 Ash Barty will take on Ajla Tomijanovic in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon 2021. She is coming on the back of wins over French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova, Siniakova, Blinkova, and Suarez Navarro with just a single set loss in the Wimbledon 2021.
The 25-year-old is chasing her first Wimbledon title. TomIjanovic, on the other hand, is heading into the contest after a walkover from Emma Raducanu and wins over Jelena Ostapenko, Alize Cornet, and Grant Minnen.
She needs to play her A-game to compete against Barty.
