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Emma Raducanu, who reached a career-high 10th successful the satellite successful the months aft her 2021 US Open win, is present ranked 72ndEmma Raducanu was knocked retired of the Miami Open by Canada's Bianca Andreescu aft a thrilling first-round lucifer that showcased the immense imaginable some players inactive possess.
The British fig one, 20, mislaid 6-3 3-6 6-2 against 22-year-old Andreescu, who besides won the US Open arsenic a teenager.
A choky contention ran distant from Raducanu erstwhile Andreescu won the past 4 games.
Two much Britons - Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund - play successful the archetypal circular of the men's singles aboriginal connected Wednesday.
Former satellite fig 1 Murray, 35, plays Serbia's Dusan Lajovic astir 21:00 GMT, portion Edmund continues his comeback from a genu wounded against China's Yibing Wu astatine a akin time.
Raducanu, ranked 72nd successful the world, enjoyed a productive week successful Indian Wells earlier moving connected to Miami, having reached the past 16 successful the Californian godforsaken contempt her mentation being hampered by a bout of tonsillitis and the recurrence of a wrist injury.
While her build-up successful Florida was much conventional, landing a first-round hostile with the calibre of erstwhile satellite fig 4 Andreescu was a pugnacious draw.
The parallels betwixt the brace are wide - chiefly being teenage US Open champions who person been beset by injuries since, but besides calved successful the aforesaid portion of Canada with Romanian heritage.
And truthful it teed up an intriguing contention betwixt 2 breathtaking players who reminded everyone of their sizeable endowment successful an enjoyable encounter.
Raducanu, who won the New York rubric arsenic a qualifier successful 2021, was breached successful her archetypal work crippled of the lucifer erstwhile she pushed a forehand wide and Andreescu moved 2-0 up with what proved to beryllium a captious interruption successful the opening set.
Former Miami finalist Andreescu continued to use unit connected Raducanu's service portion dominating connected her own, retaining composure to seal an opener which she had agelong controlled aft the Briton had seen disconnected 3 different acceptable points.
Raducanu's unforced errors had acold outweighed her winners but she recovered her bushed successful the 2nd set, looking comfy connected service and returning with much quality.
As the Briton moved 4-3 up with the acceptable inactive connected serve, her content continued to grow.
She cranked up the unit successful a gripping eighth game, 31st-ranked Andreescu showing unthinkable absorption and resilience to prevention six interruption points, but yet buckling and enabling Raducanu to instrumentality the lucifer into a decider.
Both players took a agelong interruption earlier the decider - an denotation of their intelligence and carnal exertions - and the brushwood resumed astatine the aforesaid intensity.
Raducanu was incapable to interruption Andreescu's service from 0-40 successful the opening crippled and that proved important arsenic the 2019 US Open champion rapidly turned a choky conflict successful her favour.
Heavy coughing leads to wounded for Swiatek
Meanwhile, defending women's champion Iga Swiatek has pulled retired of the tourney connected the eve of her first-round lucifer with a rib injury.
Poland's satellite fig 1 Swiatek, 21, says the wounded was caused by dense coughing from an corruption and she volition besides miss her nation's necktie against Kazakhstan successful the Billie Jean King Cup connected 14-15 April.
"Unfortunately, I'm inactive feeling a batch of discomfort and symptom and I can't compete," said the reigning French Open and US Open champion.
"I volition support you updated astir wherever I play next, due to the fact that it depends connected my process of recovering and the proposal of my aesculapian team.
"It's a genuinely hard telephone to not play successful Miami and BJK Cup, but wellness is the astir important."
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