Emma Raducanu is out of the first 1000-level tournament of the WTA Asian swing with a ligament injury, having deliberately ‘stacked’ her schedule for this part of the season.
On Monday September 23, Raducanu confirmed her absence from the China Open in Beijing with a statement on X.
“Hello, last week in Seoul I sprained some ligaments in my foot which unfortunately need some more time to heal,” said Raducanu. “It means I can’t play in Beijing but I hope to be back competing as soon as I can.”
Hello, last week in Seoul i sprained some ligaments in my foot which unfortunately need some more time to heal😔. It means i can’t play in Beijing but I hope to be back competing as soon as i can 🤞❤️🩹
— Emma Raducanu (@EmmaRaducanu) September 23, 2024
Raducanu, 21, retired from her Korean Open quarter-final against top seed Daria Kasatkina having lost the first set 6-1. Her movement was visibly impeded throughout a set in which she won just four points on serve, and she pointed to the area around her Achilles while being assessed between games.
The injury is a particular blow for the Brit, after she deliberately biased her tennis scheduling for the year towards the current hard-court swing in Asia, which takes in tournaments in Seoul; Beijing, Wuhan and Ningbo in China; and then Tokyo. “I thrive in Asia,” she told the WTA website, emphasizing that she had skipped grass-court tournaments, as well as warm-ups for the U.S. Open (at which she arrived under-cooked and lost in the first round) in order to be fit for this part of the year.
Raducanu has struggled periodically with injury since winning the U.S. Open as a qualifier in 2021. She underwent double wrist and ankle surgery in summer 2023, and pulled out of a mixed doubles match with Andy Murray at Wimbledon in order to protect her fitness for the singles event there.
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