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The Guardian
26-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Emma Raducanu admits struggle in gritty French Open win over Wang Xinyu
Emma Raducanu arrived in Paris towards the end of last week fully preoccupied by her recovery from the back spasms she had suffered days earlier. Her expectations accordingly lowered, she deservingly started her French Open on a high by demonstrating her mental toughness throughout an excellent, gritty 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Xinyu Wang of China to reach the second round at Roland Garros. Raducanu will now face one of the toughest challenges possible in professional tennis as she takes on the four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek. Swiatek, who is attempting to win an open era record fourth consecutive title at Roland Garros, opened her title defence with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Rebecca Sramkova and Raducanu said of the match-up: 'I'm very happy to give myself another chance. I felt the noise around the match [against Swiatek] before we'd played the first round. I'm looking forward to going out there. There's not much pressure on me.' Before the tournament, the British player had struck a note of caution as she was uncertain about how her back would respond to the physical demands of matchplay. Beyond the question marks surrounding her condition, though, her progress on clay has been undeniable. She worked through three solid wins to reach the fourth round of the Italian Open and then she registered her first top 20 victory on clay against Daria Kasatkina last week in Strasbourg before her back flared up in her second round defeat by Danielle Collins. With Mark Petchey, her ad-hoc coach, on commentary duty at the same time, Raducanu was supported on a packed court 8 by Jane O'Donoghue and the LTA coach Tom Welsh. She opened the match looking to punish Wang's second serve and leading with her forehand, as she has done throughout the clay court season. The past few months have seen a significant shift in Raducanu's approach to the sport. Off the court, she has tried to find more balance and enjoyment in her life as opposed to the more regimented schedules that other players follow. On court, she has come closer to finding her identity by pairing her offensive mentality with greater variation. This was particularly visible against Wang, the WTA No43, with Raducanu continually mixing up her forehand with heavier topspin in contrast to Wang's one-dimensional flatter hit. Raducanu has also been extremely vocal in her recent matches, cheering after most winning points, which she believes is key to providing her with the energy she needs to play the attacking tennis she desires. While her forehand was excellent throughout the match, Raducanu was unusually tentative with her trusty backhand early on, which crumpled under pressure as she failed to serve out the set at 5-4. Maintaining her composure, she immediately retrieved the break, but at 6-5 she called for the physio and doctor. She spent much of her medical timeout dabbing ice around her face while having her blood pressure and heart rate checked. Afterwards, she admitted in an on-court interview: 'I don't feel great, I would have felt worse if I had lost. I was struggling from the start. 'When you're not feeling energetic, I knew I had to start well to give myself the best chance to keep fighting.' Despite putting up an excellent, aggressive hold to seal the first set, the match had shifted. While Raducanu's tension seeped into her serve, Wang gradually began to find her range and dominate the baseline exchanges. Raducanu soon found herself down 1-5, a final set beckoning. She dug deep, finding greater rhythm on her backhand and breaking serve twice with her best run of games in the match. At 4-5, however, Raducanu was punished for her poor first serve percentage under pressure. No matter, Raducanu's groundstrokes were in full flow and she continued to strike the ball with authority and ease off both wings early in set three. After breaking serve immediately, she continually played the biggest points with bold, unflinching aggression. It was never easy – two of her service breaks were earned from 40-0 down and then she failed to serve out the match at 5-2 after holding two match points – but Raducanu was rewarded for both her quality and fight as she closed out an impressive win.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Emma Raducanu battles ill-health to win gruelling French Open first round match - as Brit sets up showdown with defending champion Iga Swiatek
Emma Raducanu is learning to problem solve on her own - and she certainly had to do that here in Paris as she battled an aggressive opponent, ill health and the lingering effects of a back spasm to move into the second round of the French open. Coach Mark Petchey was busy with his day job commentating for TruTV, so courtside advice for Raducanu was limited to big sister figure Jane O'Donoghue and hitting partner Tom Welsh. She will hope the broadcasting schedules fall in her favour on Wednesday for her second round: the world No41 will need all the help she can get against four-time champion Iga Swiatek. Raducanu will face the world No5 for the second Grand Slam in a row. It was not pretty in Australia - a 6-0, 6-1 defeat - and even though Swiatek's form has collapsed since then she is still an enormous favourite. That is a problem for another day, though. First we must give enormous credit to the way Raducanu scrapped her way through a highly testing encounter with Chinese world No43 Xinyu Wang. She hit her forehand superbly but this win was all about heart and nerve and competitive instincts. In coming through, Raducanu recorded Britain's first victory at Roland Garros since 2023, after last year's wipeout. The scoreline read 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, a contest which hovered on a knife edge until Raducanu, wholly unexpectedly, cantered to the finish line. Raducanu took a 5-3 lead in the opening set but failed to serve out. She broke again for 6-5 and in the changeover summoned the doctor to the court. One assumed it was an issue relating to the back spasm she suffered in defeat to Danielle Collins in Strasbourg last week, but in fact it was more of a GP than a physio appointment. Raducanu's blood pressure was taken and the doc used a stethoscope to listen to her chest. She was given a couple of potions to take and was dabbing at her forehead, perhaps suggesting some kind of fever. Raducanu came out and produced her first love service game of the match to take the set. A comfortable way to close out the set but there was nothing comfortable about Raducanu at the moment. Wang always looked a dangerous draw, and her massive forehand did significant damage, especially against the Raducanu second serve. She weaved in a few drop shots too and generally presented Raducanu with a puzzle that would have taken some solving time even in the best of health. Raducanu has increased the rate of spin she applies to her forehand this clay court season, and that allowed to manoeuvre Wang out of position. It was the normally steady backhand which let her down at times. The press seats were just next to Wang's camp, and the 23-year-old was grinning and giggling as she spoke to them at 4-1 in the second set. The dice certainly seemed loaded in her favour against an ailing opponent and 4-1 became 5-1. Raducanu will now face Iga Swiatek, who is bidding for a fourth successive French Open title But Raducanu dug in and chiseled out three games in a row. Who's laughing now? 'Fight! Fight!' yelled Wang's coach. Fight she did and as the deciding set began she looked an odds-on favourite. But Raducanu swept the first five points of the set, breaking to love. A second break arrived and, after letting two match points go as she served for it at 5-2, Raducanu struck the decisive blow on the Wang serve.
Technical.ly
22-05-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
How a CMU grad student turned a lab bottleneck into a startup that just raised its first $1M
For founder Bingda Li, launching a startup wasn't about chasing a hypothetical problem, it was about fixing a real one he encountered in the lab. While studying biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Li worked on a promising new treatment called exosome therapy to improve the success of organ transplants. But he faced a major challenge: the difficult process required growing a massive amount of cells in the lab, something that is still largely done by hand. Li teamed up with fellow Carnegie Mellon student Xinyu Wang to build tech that could fix it. They launched Mito Robotics in 2023, aiming to accelerate the development and use of intelligent robotics in life science labs, making processes like cell culturing faster, more efficient and less reliant on manual labor. Li teamed up with fellow Carnegie Mellon student Xinyu Wang to build tech that could fix it. They launched Mito Robotics in 2023, aiming to accelerate the development and use of intelligent robotics in life science labs, making processes like cell culturing faster, more efficient and less reliant on manual labor. But Li's ideas of becoming an entrepreneur started much earlier. When Li came to the US from China at 14 years old, he immediately noticed how prevalent entrepreneurship was in the United States. 'I think it opened up my mind to who I wanted to be,' Li told 'There's more potential than just going to work, and especially coming to Carnegie Mellon, I realized that maybe I can do something bigger through entrepreneurship.' With just two years of experience, Li has already hit a major milestone in his journey as an entrepreneur. Earlier this year, the startup received a $1 million pre-seed investment from California-based Draper Associates, which is known for its early investments in companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Robinhood and Twitch. Now, Mito is using the money to expedite the development of its prototype. In this edition of How I Got Here series, we sat down with Li at StudioMe in Oakland to talk about the Pittsburgh-based opportunities that helped his startup grow, the challenges he faced in securing pre-seed funding and the advice he'd give his younger self. The Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. What sparked your interest in tech and entrepreneurship? I did my undergrad at Wake Forest University, and I majored in kinesthology and minored in biology and entrepreneurship. That's how I started getting into the entrepreneurship field. Then, when I was looking for graduate school, initially I was pre-med, but then I was getting more and more interested in entrepreneurship. I thought engineering could be more helpful to get me into entrepreneurship. When I was doing a master's at Carnegie Mellon, I was also in another program called the Engineering and Technology Innovation Management Program. The program helped me get an idea of how to build a startup, how to manage a startup and how to solve problems in general. I always kept my eyes open to any type of problems that I could potentially solve using advanced technology. How has your experience as an immigrant influenced your path in the tech world? I would say I've seen the growth of technology in both countries. Right now, when we talk about technology, the top two countries we think about are probably China and the US. Europe, Japan and Korea are doing great things as well, but from the news headlines, China and the US are really getting a lot of attention, especially in AI and robotics. Because I'm bilingual, I have the opportunity to see the news from both sides and talk to people from both sides. What shaped me as an entrepreneur is trying to get the best out of the two countries. In China, a lot of the focus is on how to make things cost-effective. In the US, I think a lot of focus is on making the technology as advanced as possible. When I developed my robot for lab automation, I started thinking about how I could make the robot as advanced as possible but also as accessible as possible for research labs, not only the labs that are very well funded, but also the labs that are not very well funded. What's been the toughest challenge you've faced in your career so far, and how did you work through it? In terms of the startup, initially, it was just fundraising. We were really looking to have resources and be supported in Pittsburgh. Initially, we were having a little bit of a hard time. Although CMU is a great school, great name, great program, me and my cofounder Xinyu were both first-time founders and didn't have a strong portfolio behind us. A lot of people just did not believe that we could make it happen, because we're not just developing software, we're developing a robot that's bigger than the fridge in your home. But now, we already have part of the robot delivered to customers' labs, so we aim to have the full robot by the end of this year. What kinds of opportunities or support systems have been especially valuable to you on this journey? We had this idea of developing an intelligent robot for cell culture automation in the late fall of 2022. The first bootcamp we participated in was the kickstart customer discovery bootcamp at Carnegie Mellon University. They were organizing that as the NSF I Corp regional program, so it teaches you how to do customer discovery and things like that. Initially, the first two years, me and my cofounder were really just focused on educating ourselves on how to do customer discovery, how to do market analysis, how to do this business analysis and talking to as many people around us as possible, just to make sure the problem that we're solving is truly a universal problem around the labs, instead of just my problems. Turns out there are a lot of complaints and people looking for solutions for automating that. Then we also reached out to this program called Ascender. They have a lot of great programs, a lot of great educational resources. They provided a lot of those resources to us as well, and also some of the financial support for the idea and the research. That's one thing I strongly recommend for Pittsburgh-based startups or innovators that are looking for support. What's one piece of advice you wish someone had given you earlier as a founder? To be very confident in what you're doing, especially during the fundraising stage. Initially, when we were reaching out to investors, telling them our ideas, I don't think we were confident enough, because they were throwing a lot of challenging questions at us, and each question was like a bullet. We had to take each of those bullets, and every time we started to question ourselves. But we had a lot of convincing data from the customer discovery side. If I were talking to myself one year before, I would tell myself that you need to stand your ground, be much more confident, because you also know something that they don't. You talk to all these customers, all these scientists, that the investors probably didn't talk to, so they don't know the insights from all these customers. It's not just you begging these investors to invest in you, it's that you show them the data, you show them where you are, be confident, you've been in the field for some time.
USA Today
19-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
How to Watch Xinyu Wang vs. Eva Lys at the 2025 Internationaux de Strasbourg: Live Stream, TV Channel
How to Watch Xinyu Wang vs. Eva Lys at the 2025 Internationaux de Strasbourg: Live Stream, TV Channel In the Internationaux de Strasbourg Round of 32 on Monday, No. 42-ranked Xinyu Wang meets No. 59 Eva Lys. Wang last competed on May 7, 2025 at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she fell to Kamilla Rakhimova (3-6, 2-6) in the Round of 128. Lys' last match on Sunday was a two-set win over Bernarda Pera 7-6, 6-1 in the qualifying round. Watch Tennis Channel on Fubo! Xinyu Wang vs. Eva Lys: live stream info & TV channel Tournament: Internationaux de Strasbourg Internationaux de Strasbourg Round: Round of 32 Round of 32 Date: Monday, May 19 Monday, May 19 Live Stream: Watch Tennis Channel on Fubo Watch Tennis Channel on Fubo Court Surface: Clay Xinyu Wang vs. Eva Lys matchup stats Wang is 4-4 on clay over the past year, with no tournament victories. On clay, Wang has won 63.7% of her service games and 34.7% of her return games over the past year. Wang has converted 31 of 85 break points on clay (36.5%) over the past 12 months and is 106th in break points won. In her last tournament, the Mutua Madrid Open, Wang fell in the Round of 128 to No. 82-ranked Maria Sakkari, 4-6, 6-7 on April 23. Lys has put up a 9-6 record in six tournaments on clay over the past year. Lys is 89-for-147 in service games on clay surfaces (winning 60.5%) and 67-for-143 in return games (46.9%). On clay Lys has won 52.0% of break points, 65 out of 125, which ranks 23rd. In her last tournament (the Internazionali BNL d'Italia) on May 9, Lys squared off against Elena Rybakina in the Round of 64 and was eliminated 6-7, 2-6. Tennis odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Sunday at 6:56 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub.
USA Today
31-01-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
How to watch Singapore Open Saturday: TV coverage, streaming live, match times and more Feb. 1
There are two matches at the Singapore Open on February 1, the best being No. 35-ranked Xinyu Wang versus No. 32 Elise Mertens. If you're wanting to keep up with the action, then tune in to the Tennis Channel, which will have live coverage and the biggest highlights from the world of tennis on Center Court and Center Court Live. Singapore Open key details Tournament: The Singapore Open The Singapore Open Round: Semifinals Semifinals Date: February 1 February 1 Court Surface: Hard Match of the day: Xinyu Wang vs. Elise Mertens Start time: 2:30 AM ET 2:30 AM ET Round: Semifinal Semifinal Wang is 2-2 on the year, with no tournament victories. Mertens has posted a 5-2 record on the year in two tournaments, failing to secure any tournament wins. Singapore Open schedule today Anna Kalinskaya vs. Ann Li, 1:00 AM ET (Semifinal) Xinyu Wang vs. Elise Mertens, 2:30 AM ET (Semifinal) Singapore Open results yesterday
