Raducanu surges into Korea Open semis

Emma Raducanu surged into the Seoul semifinals on Friday as she won three matches in a row at a tournament for the first time since her US Open triumph. The 19-year-old Briton blew away third seed Magda Linette 6-2, 6-2 at the Korea Open and faces fellow former major champion Jelena Ostapenko in the last four. Raducanu, who reached a career-high 10th in the world in July but is now 77th, showed flashes of her Flushing Meadows brilliance of 2021 in demolishing Poland's Linette in 77 minutes.

The other semifinal is between Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova and Germany's Tatjana Maria.