Emma Raducanu`s Miami Open run has ended following a grueling clash with Jessica Pegula, during which she experienced a concerning bout of dizziness.
The quarter-final match between the two lasted two and a half hours before Pegula, the world`s richest tennis player, defeated the Brit.
Pegula, the No.4 seed, ended Raducanu`s impressive run in the competition with a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2 victory.
There were brief medical concerns for Raducanu late in the second set when she suffered from a bout of dizziness.
However, she continued after receiving medical treatment, which included having her blood taken, and played the third set.
Recalling her dizziness, the 22-year-old said: “I just felt really dizzy. I felt faint.
“I don’t know, it was very humid out there and we had a long wait.
“So maybe just an accumulation, and just physical points as well and there were long rallies and heavy conditions.
“But… yeah, I don`t know how I kind of regrouped in that second set, but in the third I definitely struggled a little bit.”
Defeat to Pegula, who is the heiress to a £4billion fortune, has Raducanu assessing her plans for her next tournament.
She said: “I’m not sure. I think I need to just take a beat and kind of just re-evaluate what I’m doing.
“This week it was good, but I need to just kind of figure things out and then I’ll make a plan from there.”
Raducanu had shown glimpses of the player who won the US Open in 2021 in her run to the quarter-finals in Miami.
This past fortnight in Florida, she won four matches in a row to reach the quarter-finals of the prestigious Miami Open for the first time.
Though she has been to the latter stages of other events, this is her first last-eight appearance at a Masters 1000 tournament, the level below the Slams.
That was despite her recently axing her now former coach Vladimir Platenik, who she parted company with last week.
Platenik, who was dismissed after just two weeks, told the BBC: “I totally understand Emma, she`s not in an easy position.
“The world is watching her after the US Open [which she won in 2021] and everyone is expecting – including herself – what she is going to do next.
“So for me it`s absolutely understandable that she`s under a lot of pressure. She told me she was feeling stressed.
“There are no hard feelings from my side. She ended the relationship in a fair way, maybe too quickly, but this is tennis, this is sport. We need to respect that.
“She was not feeling okay, and that was her decision. I didn`t want to go into deeper communication about that.
“I think the player needs to feel good, and the player needs to make a decision.
“Sometimes you make a good decision, and sometimes bad.”
