Emma Raducanu shall be on the sidelines once more this week after saying she is pulling out of the upcoming WTA 1000 occasion in Beijing.
In a social media submit, Raducanu recognized the damage she suffered in Seoul final week as sprained ligaments in her left foot, and stated that she would skip Beijing to present herself time to get well.
Whats up, final week in Seoul i sprained some ligaments in my foot which sadly want some extra time to heal😔. It means i am unable to play in Beijing however I hope to be again competing as quickly as i can 🤞❤️🩹
— Emma Raducanu (@EmmaRaducanu) September 23, 2024
That is the primary real damage setback that Raducanu has skilled this season, after making her return from double wrist and ankle surgical procedure initially of the yr.
The foot drawback compelled her to retire from her quarter-final in Seoul on Saturday morning after dropping the primary set 6-1 to prime seed Daria Kasatkina. This was the seventh mid-match retirement of her profession, of which 4 occurred throughout her injury-plagued 2022.
In her submit, Raducanu didn’t provide any additional details about her upcoming commitments. She had beforehand instructed an interviewer that she needed to play a “actually lengthy block in Asia on the finish of the yr”.
This “lengthy block” might embody the entire Chinese language swing because it continues by Wuhan, Ningbo and Guangzhou.
At current, Raducanu has a wildcard entry for the second of these occasions – the lately upgraded WTA 500 in Ningbo – and is on the entry record to play within the qualifying occasion in Wuhan, which begins on Oct 7. She has a superb probability of additionally being given a late wildcard into the primary draw there, ought to she declare herself match.
Raducanu scored two wins in Seoul final week: the primary a scrappy affair in opposition to Peyton Stearns and the second a a lot cleaner efficiency in opposition to final yr’s finalist Yue Yuan. That lifted her 16 locations on this planet rankings, to No 54. On kind, she seems able to going a good method increased, to the highest 30 a minimum of. However her largest problem all through her brief profession has all the time been staying match.
Two different British girls have earned direct entry to Beijing and can play their matches later this week. Harriet Dart will face gifted Danish 21-year-old Clara Tauson within the first spherical, whereas twenty sixth seed Katie Boulter has a first-round bye earlier than arising in opposition to both Italian clay-court specialist Martina Trevisan or American net-rusher Taylor Townsend.
