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Britain's Emma Raducanu mislaid successful the archetypal circular of the Abu Dhabi Open arsenic she went down successful consecutive sets to erstwhile Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova.
Raducanu, 22, was beaten 6-3 6-4 arsenic she proved incapable to instrumentality vantage of her precocious wildcard introduction to the main draw.
She made a affirmative commencement against Czech Vondrousova and led 3-1 aft an aboriginal interruption of serve, but she past surrendered the archetypal acceptable by losing 5 consecutive games.
Vondrousova, who returned from a six-month lay-off successful January pursuing enarthrosis surgery, saved 4 interruption points aboriginal successful the 2nd acceptable earlier breaking for a 5-3 pb and the accidental to service retired the match.
While Raducanu offered an contiguous effect to enactment successful contention by winning the adjacent game, the 2021 US Open champion's hopes of making a comeback were soon ended.
It was each implicit erstwhile Vondrousova, the 2023 victor astatine Wimbledon, clinched her 3rd lucifer point.
Raducanu was promoted into the main 28-player tract successful Abu Dhabi astatine the weekend, having initially been acceptable to vie successful qualifying for the archetypal clip since her fairytale tally successful New York 3 and a fractional years ago.
The satellite fig 56 reached the 3rd circular of the Australian Open past month. She climbed backmost into the world's apical 60 past twelvemonth aft missing astir of the 2023 play pursuing country connected some wrists and her near ankle.
Vondrousova volition play Kazakh 4th effect Yulia Putintseva next.
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