CNN — Winning tennis matches hasn’t been Emma Raducanu’s only concern lately – staying injury free has become tricky for the British star. The 20-year-old has suffered a myriad of injuries over
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Winning tennis matches hasn’t been Emma Raducanu’s only concern lately – staying injury free has become tricky for the British star.
The 20-year-old has suffered a myriad of injuries over the past 18 months which has blighted her hopes of on-court success.
But Raducanu’s run at Indian Wells has shown glimpses of the form that brought her grand slam success in 2021 as she advanced to the last 16 of Indian Wells on Monday after beating No. 13 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia in three sets, 6-1 2-6 6-4.
In doing so, Raducanu advanced to the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open for the first time in her career, as well as winning three successive matches for only the second time since winning the US Open in September 2021.
Raducanu last managed three successive victories in 2022 at the WTA 250 in Seoul, South Korea, before she was forced to retire against Jelena Ostapenko in the semifinals once again due to injury.
Following victory over Brazilian Haddad Maia – Raducanu’s highest-ranked scalp since her US Open victory almost two years ago – the Briton’s analysis was that she played a “really high level at some points of the match.”
“I think that I played extremely well in the first set and in the third set as well,” Raducanu told reporters. “There were some really good points and moments. I think overall the level increased in the third, and it was a battle from both of us.”
As well as a lingering wrist injury that hampered her last season, Raducanu suffered an ankle injury before the Australian Open earlier this year, while tonsillitis forced her to withdraw from the Austin Open last month.
Following her victory over world No. 21 Magda Linette in the previous round at Indian Wells, Raducanu admitted she still wasn’t “pain free.”
However, Raducanu got off to a flying start against Haddad Maia, breaking her twice in the first set.
The 26-year-old Brazilian showed her own resolve – and why she won the second most matches on the WTA last year – breaking Raducanu twice in the second set to level the match.
In a nail-biting final set, Raducanu showed plenty of grit to end a six-match losing run against top-20 opposition.
The current world No. 77 will now faces world No. 1 Iga Świątek in the next round after the three-time grand slam winner continued her impressive form in 2023 by beating 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu in straight sets.
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Latinos are avid consumers of TV content and having on-screen representation is leading many of them to spend more time on a streaming platform and binging shows, a new Nielsen audience report says.
The report, which was released Wednesday, analyzes how Latinos watch television and the impact of representation, both on camera and behind it.
Nearly half of the total TV viewing done by Latinos in the United States in July was attributed to streaming platforms, the report says. About 23.1% were broadcast or traditional live TV, and 20% was cable.
When compared to the entire US population, Latinos spent less time watching traditional live television in the first quarter of this year. People across the US watched a total of about 20 hours weekly while Latinos only watched 18 hours, according to the Nielsen report.
From 2021 through the first quarter of this year, researchers analyzed the 530 most-streamed shows in the US and worked to identify what attracted Latino audiences.
They found that shows in which Latinos only worked behind the scenes had an average of 25.2% cultural watchability. Meanwhile, shows that have Latino representation behind and in front of the camera saw nearly a 10% increase in watchability to 34.2%, the report says.
Of the 530 shows analyzed, only 36 had the same percentage of Latino representation as the population, which is 19%, the report says.
Among the 134 shows that were considered highly bingeable based on an industry scale, 56 had Latino representation on at least one side of the camera.
Stacie de Armas, senior vice president of Nielsen’s Diverse Insights and Initiatives, said the report shows that, “it’s clear that inclusion plays a significant role in bingeability and cultural watchability in content for Latinos.”
“Also significant is that Latino-led content not only serves Latino audiences but attracts new viewers and subscribers to platforms, who stay longer and consume more content, which goes to show the power of Latino-led content,” de Armas added.
The Nielsen report comes as Latinos in all corners of the industry and even some in the political sphere have been criticized the lack of representation in recent years.
Last year, the US Government Accountability Office published a report saying Latino workers comprised about 12% of the entire media industry’s workforce, including film, television, publishing, and news. That’s a lower percentage of Hispanic workers than the percentage for all other industries combined in 2019, the report stated.
A Netflix diversity audit conducted by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in 2020 revealed that just 4.5% of main cast members of more than 300 original movies and scripted series posted on the platform from January 2018 through December 2019 went to Latinx actors and filmmakers during that two-year span. At the time, Netflix said it needed to greenlight more original Latinx content.
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