Raducanu began her season with victory over Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round of the Australian Open but could not repeat the feat at the Qatar Open in Doha.
Raducanu suffers longest losing run of career after first-round defeat in Qatar Emma Raducanu’s struggles continued as she suffered a fourth straight loss for the first time in her career.
But Alexandrova began to really find her range on her big ground strokes and by the time Raducanu won another game she was already a break down in the second set.
Against Vondrousova last week, Raducanu got off to a strong start, moving into a 3-1 lead, and had she taken any of three chances for a second break of serve things might have turned out differently.
Raducanu’s mentor Jane O’Donoghue flew out to Doha to offer support but could not help the former US Open champion engineer a change in fortunes.
