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THE SECRET MEANING BEHIND EMMA RADUCANU’S NEW RADDO NICKNAME AT THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Emma Raducanu overcomes a slow start to reach the second round. Discover the story behind her new nickname "Raddo" in Melbourne.
Emma Raducanu has picked up a new nickname at the Australian Open. Despite a bit of a slow start, the British No. 1 made it to the second round by winning against Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew in straight sets.
Raducanu didn't get to the Australian Open until just before it kicked off. Her off-season was rough, with an injury and a surprising loss at the Hobart International recently. The former US Open champ was bummed about having to play late on the first day.
She gave props to Sawangkaew, the world No. 195 from Thailand, who came out strong in her first major tournament main draw match. Sawangkaew almost had a 4-1 lead in the first set. But Raducanu bounced back and won 6-4, 6-1.
After the match, Raducanu thanked a fan who cheered her on by shouting, “Raddo. She even wrote her new nickname on the camera by the court.
“Apparently, Down Under I’ve got Raddo,” she said. “Never heard that before. Pretty original. I really appreciate the support. It was great. Having that behind me really helped in the big moments. I told him he’s welcome to come to any match. I just need to find him. I hope he comes back.”
Raducanu said she was happy with how she turned things around after Sawangkaew's early lead. It was only her fourth match of the season, since she was limited during the off-season with a foot injury. With a possible match against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the third round, Raducanu is quickly finding her form.
“I didn’t even practise any points before coming out here,” said Raducanu, who is seeded 28th. She will now play against Anastasia Potapova, who was born in Russia, in the second round. “My match with Maria Sakkari was pretty much my first practice, which is unusual.
“Given that, and only having two weeks to play and get used to things here, I’m happy with my level and how quickly I’ve adapted on the court.
“It makes me think that if I keep at it and get in some solid practice, I can improve a lot more.”
Raducanu will have a couple of days off before playing Potapova, who has been ranked as high as 21st in the world.
Fellow Brit Arthur Fery also made it to the second round, pulling off the first surprise of the Australian Open. Fery, ranked 186th, beat the 20th seed, Flavio Cobolli, in the first round.
Fery, playing in his first overseas major tournament, won 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-1 against Cobolli, who struggled with a stomach bug and had to take a medical timeout.
Having received a wildcard at last year’s Wimbledon, the French-born player won his first-round match, also against the 20th seed, Australia’s Alexei Popyrin.
This time, Fery has already won four matches in Melbourne, after making it through qualifying, and will now face Argentina’s Tomas Martín Etcheverry in the second round.
Arthur Fery celebrates beating Flavio Cobolli.
“I guess I like playing 20th seeds at Grand Slams,” Fery joked after his on-court interview. “I felt great. I felt really comfortable on the court. Playing three matches in qualifying really helped.”
After Fery qualified for the main draw, his mum, former player Olivia Fery, flew to Australia just in time for his match against Cobolli.
“When I won that last round, she asked if she could come,” Fery said. “It’s a long trip, but at least I made it worth it. She’ll get to see at least two matches, hopefully more.”
Cameron Norrie is also through to the second round after a tough five-set win against Benjamin Bonzi from France. Norrie started strong, winning the first set 6-0, but the British No. 2 and 26th seed had to fight hard as Bonzi stepped up his game, eventually winning 6-0, 6-7 (2), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Meanwhile, Venus Williams made history just by stepping onto the court at the Australian Open, but her comeback was spoiled as Serbia’s Olga Danilovic won the last six games to win in three sets.
At 45, Williams is the oldest woman to play in the singles tournament, after being granted a wildcard into the main draw. The seven-time Grand Slam champ, back in Melbourne for the first time in five years, started well and impressed the crowd with a great forehand winner to win the first set in a tiebreak.
Venus Williams acknowledges the applause as she walks off the court after losing to Serbia's Olga Danilovic.
Danilovic came back to win the second set and even the match. Williams seemed to be on her way to victory, and her first Grand Slam singles win since Wimbledon in 2021, when she took a 4-0 lead in the final set.
But Danilovic, 24, rallied to deny Williams a spot in the second round, winning 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4. Williams, who first played at the Australian Open in 1998 at age 17, received a standing ovation as she left the court. She will also be playing in the doubles tournament with Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Alexandrova, the 11th seed in the singles, was the biggest upset of the day, losing to Turkish qualifier Zeynep Sonmez. Marta Kostyuk, the 20th seed who was in good form after reaching the final of the Brisbane warm-up event, was beaten 6-7, 7-,6 7-6 by Elsa Jacquemot.
DOHA DISASTER: IGA SWIATEK AND ELENA RYBAKINA BOTH CRASH OUT IN QUARTER-FINAL SHOCKERS
Massive upsets in Doha! Maria Sakkari stuns Iga Swiatek while teen Victoria Mboko takes down Rybakina. Read the full analysis.
World number two Iga Swiatek and Australian Open champ Elena Rybakina both made early exits from the Qatar Open on February 12, falling in the quarter-finals to Maria Sakkari and Victoria Mboko.
Swiatek, the top seed and defending champ, started strong; she broke Sakkari twice in the first set and looked on track for another easy win. But Sakkari, who’s had a tough stretch lately, dug in. She fought back, grabbing a tense 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 win. Afterward, Sakkari admitted, “It’s been a while since I had a big win like today.” She used to be ranked as high as No. 3 in the world back in 2022 but has slipped all the way down to 52. “When you drop in the rankings and you’re not playing good tennis, you start doubting yourself. You think you’re never going to beat those players again,” she said. “So it’s a huge process you have to go through in your head that you can do it.”
Sakkari, 30, had beaten Swiatek three times earlier in their careers, but not since 2021. Swiatek had won their last four matches, including a straight-sets victory in Qatar last year. “Last year, in the second round here against her, I was not confident; I was not believing in myself, and this year it’s different. I feel a lot better,” Sakkari said. She’ll now play either Karolina Muchova or Anna Kalinskaya in the semi-finals. “I’ve missed that feeling of going deep into tournaments.”
Swiatek, who dominated this event in 2022, 2023, and 2024, looked ready to do it again. But after dropping the first set, Sakkari found something extra. She broke early in the second set, and even though Swiatek kept responding, Sakkari steadied herself, broke again, and took the set. For the first time in their seven matches, they went to a deciding set. It was back-and-forth—Swiatek saved a match point, but Sakkari served out the win, finally sealing it on her third chance. The match lasted just under two and a half hours.
Right after that, Victoria Mboko kept her hot streak going. She beat Rybakina 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in a match that was only six minutes shorter than the Sakkari-Swiatek battle. Mboko had already beaten Rybakina once this year, in the Montreal semi-finals, and she came out swinging again, breaking Rybakina’s serve three times in the first set. She dropped her own serve twice but still took the set. Rybakina bounced back to grab the second, but the 19-year-old Canadian had the edge in the third and closed it out 6-4.
Mboko, who lost to world number one Aryna Sabalenka in Melbourne a few weeks ago, now faces Jelena Ostapenko in the Doha semis. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champ and last year’s runner-up, made it through by beating Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-5, 6-4.
ELITE CLUB: SEBASTIAN KORDA HITS 150 ATP WINS TO JOIN CARLOS ALCARAZ AND JANNIK SINNER
Sebastian Korda secures his 150th ATP win in Dallas. Discover the six stars born after 2000 who are chasing Sinner and Alcaraz.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are still running the show on the ATP Tour, but they’re not the only young guns making waves. Four other players born after 2000 have now reached 150 career wins, joining the exclusive club right behind the top two.
Sinner leads the pack with a massive 326 ATP wins, leaving Alcaraz in second with 287. These two haven’t just piled up the numbers, either—they’ve basically owned the Grand Slams lately, splitting the last nine majors between them.
Even so, this generation isn’t just a two-man race. Sebastian Korda made headlines at the Dallas Open by picking up his 150th ATP win against Michael Zheng. That puts him in the same bracket as Alcaraz and Sinner. Felix Auger-Aliassime sits just behind the top two with 270 wins, then comes Lorenzo Musetti at 184 and Holger Rune with 175.
Let’s be honest right now, Alcaraz and Sinner are still the players everyone’s chasing. But with both of them sitting out this week, the door’s wide open for someone else to step up. Korda, Taylor Fritz, and Ben Shelton are all battling it out at a Dallas Open packed with American talent. Meanwhile, Alex de Minaur and Auger-Aliassime are among the big names at the Rotterdam Open.
Take a look at the last nine Grand Slam winners, and it’s pretty much a Sinner-Alcaraz highlight reel:
Australian Open: 2024 Sinner, 2025 Sinner, 2026 Alcaraz
French Open: 2024 Alcaraz, 2025 Alcaraz
Wimbledon: 2024 Alcaraz, 2025 Sinner
US Open: 2024 Sinner, 2025 Alcaraz
Of course, there’s always hope that players like Rune and Jack Draper can mix things up, but Rune’s currently injured, and Draper’s just getting back after a long layoff. Then you have rising talents like Learner Tien and Joao Fonseca, both recent Next Gen ATP Finals champs, just like Alcaraz and Sinner were earlier in their careers, who might be the next to challenge the big two. The race is on, but for now, Alcaraz and Sinner are still setting the pace.
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