Emma Raducanu’s latest defeat has sent her to the bottom of an alarming statistic concerning Grand Slam winners at WTA-1000 events.
Raducanu, whose only title to date came at the 2021 US Open, now has a win percentage of just 42.3% in the WTA Tour events, making her the worst-performing Grand Slam winner since the format was changed in 2009.
Here are the bottom five worst-performing Grand Slam winners in WTA-1000 events, according to Opta.
Like Raducanu, Latvian Ostapenko had her own incredible run to Grand Slam success at the 2017 French Open.
Unseeded, she had never won a Tour-level title before and did so by not only beating No 3 Simona Halep in the final but fought back from a set and 3-0 down to claim victory.
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The 20-year-old’s career since then, however has failed to reach similar heights.
She was knocked out in the first round at Roland Garros the following two seasons and has never returned to a Grand Slam final. Her best effort was the 2018 semi-final at Wimbledon as well as four quarter-final appearances.
In WTA 1000 tournaments, she won the Qatar Open in 2018 and the Cincinnati Open in 2022 but has 17 first-round eliminations on her record.
