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Britain's Emma Raducanu suffered a disappointing decision to satellite fig 101 Cristina Bucsa of Spain successful the opening circular of the Singapore Open.
The 22-year-old was playing for the archetypal clip since her 6-1 6-0 3rd circular nonaccomplishment to Iga Swiatek astatine the Australian Open and the quality her manager Nick Cavaday was stepping backmost from the role to "prioritise getting backmost to afloat health".
But successful a gruelling brushwood lasting 3 hours and 3 minutes and featuring 17 breaks of service, Bucsa came done 5-7 7-5 7-5 against the seventh effect successful the pair's archetypal meeting.
The Spaniard had served for the opening acceptable astatine 5-4 up but Raducanu, ranked 56, rattled disconnected the adjacent 3 games to instrumentality power of the match.
The 2nd acceptable started with 3 consecutive breaks of work to permission Bucsa 3-1 and past 4-2 up but Raducanu continued to conflict and different tally of 3 games successful a enactment saw her spell 5-4 up but Bucsa responded with the adjacent 3 games to level the match.
Both players struggled to clasp service successful the decider but though a weary-looking Raducanu dug heavy to borderline 5-4 ahead, Bucsa held and past broke her hostile astatine a important clip to permission her serving for the match.
The British fig 2 saved a mates of lucifer points but Bucsa, the Olympic women's doubles bronze medallist, rapidly earned different and this clip Raducanu netted.
Bucsa volition adjacent look either Sijia Wei of China oregon Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand successful the past 16.
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