The journey of Emma Raducanu and Elena Rybakina in the DC Open doubles came to an end after the unprecedented pairing retired during their semifinal match against Taylor Townsend and Shuai Zhang.

Emma Raducanu and Elena Rybakina handled the business in singles but had to retire from their Washington doubles semifinal. On Friday, the British tennis player defeated Maria Sakkari 6-4 7-5 to reach the Citi Open semifinal. Meanwhile, the Kazakh ousted Magdalena Frech 6-3 6-3.

Emma Raducanu will feature in her first WTA Tour-level semi-final in more than a year, since losing to Katie Boulter in the last four of the Nottingham Open last June. The 22-year-old – who reclaimed