Emma Raducanu is one win from the Queen's title after powering past Jovic to reach her first grass-court final at Queen's. The 23-year-old will face Donna Vekic on Sunday at the HSBC Championships, with live coverage available from 13:15 BST.
That final is exactly why the search is spiking now. Raducanu is chasing her first title since her US Open triumph as a teenager in 2021, and she will get the chance to do it on One and iPlayer, with the Sport website and app carrying live text and Radio 5 Live offering updates throughout the match.
The route there was anything but straightforward. Bad weather squeezed the schedule so tightly that Raducanu had to play both her quarter-final and semi-final on Saturday before booking her place in the final. She had been a quarter-finalist at the WTA 500 event last year, but this run moves her one step further and gives her a shot at a title that has eluded her for four years.
Vekic arrives with form of her own. She ended Katie Boulter's title hopes to secure her place in the final, and she was a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2024. That makes Sunday a genuine test for Raducanu, not a ceremonial finish to a good week.
There is still one detail missing from the picture: the prize money for the 2026 Queen's Club event has not been stated. What is clear is the structure around it. The women's final comes on Sunday, while the men's tournament runs from 15-21 June, with Cameron Norrie, Alex de Minaur, Jiri Lehecka, Jakub Mensik, Rafael Jodar, Jack Pinnington Jones, Arthur Fery and Toby Samuel all part of the draw or the wildcard list.
Raducanu has already done the hard part by surviving the weather and the double shift on Saturday. If she beats Vekic, the week at Queen's becomes more than a promising grass-court run. It becomes the start of a new line in her career, and the first title chase she has turned into a finish since 2021.
