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Emma Raducanu’s representatives have revealed that the Briton’s again harm is “nothing critical,” in accordance with British media.
Raducanu, who made her Miami debut in 2022, was scheduled to make her third Miami look this 12 months after the event organizers gave her a principal draw wildcard. When the draw was launched over the weekend, the 2021 US Open champion obtained a good first-round matchup, drawing Wang Xiyu.
However on Monday – the eve of her opening match in Miami – Raducanu pulled out of the event citing a lower-back harm. Following Raducanu’s withdrawal, Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova made the primary draw as a fortunate loser.
For Raducanu, this was the primary time since she began her post-surgery comeback within the first week of 2024 that she was compelled to withdraw from a event. Whereas Raducanu skipping Miami is not nice, it’s definitely encouraging to listen to from her workforce {that a} critical harm was averted.
After we may see Raducanu again in motion?
Now that Raducanu is out of Miami, the following time she performs will definitely be on clay courts.
Final week, British Billie Jean King Cup workforce captain Anne Keothavong named Raducanu for the upcoming qualifiers tie towards France. The tie is about to happen between April 12-13 and it will likely be going down in France on clay courts.
If Raducanu performs in the course of the BJK Cup qualifiers weekend, it could be her first look within the competitors in precisely two years.
“I’m delighted to be touring with a full-strength workforce off the again of some terrific outcomes lately,” Keothavong mentioned in an announcement final week.
“The French aspect will current a big problem as at all times, however everyone knows how representing GB evokes us and every year we’re getting stronger and higher as a workforce.”
After the BJK Cup qualifiers, Raducanu has a WTA 500 clay event in Stuttgart, which kicks off on April fifteenth.
