Raducanu knocked out of Washington Open by Badosa

Raducanu had promisingly damaged within the first recreation of the third set after which saved a break level on her strategy to going 2-0 up.

Nonetheless, Badosa, the world quantity 62, labored one other break level within the sixth recreation and the Briton succumbed with a double fault.

Raducanu, who’s 89th on the planet, didn’t take three break factors within the subsequent recreation and, on the again of that, misplaced her serve to fall 5-3 behind.

With Badosa serving for the match, the 21-year-old discovered the road with a backhand to save lots of a match level as she broke her opponent.

It was solely a short lived reprieve as Raducanu let a 40-15 benefit on her serve slip within the subsequent recreation and, going through match level, served a double fault.

Raducanu was out for eight months – throughout which era she had operations on each of her wrists and her left ankle – earlier than returning to the tour in January.

She turned down the prospect to play for Nice Britain on the Olympics as a result of she didn’t need to change again to enjoying on clay at Roland Garros.

As an alternative, Raducanu has prioritised exhausting courts the forthcoming US Open – the event she received in 2021 as a qualifier.