Emma Raducanu has been awarded a Wimbledon foremost draw wild card together with Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki.
The 21-year-old, whose 2024 taking part in schedule has been sporadic having additionally skipped the French Open with the intention to put together for the grass-court season, misplaced out to British No 1 Katie Boulter within the semi-finals of the Nottingham Open final week.
Raducanu is taking small steps on her highway to restoration from three surgical procedures this time final 12 months, the place she went beneath the knife on each wrists and an ankle.
Raducanu, who rose 44 locations from No 209 to No 165 within the newest WTA rankings, supplied an encouraging replace after her conflict with Boulter in Nottingham, saying: “I feel really good, after the match I went and did intervals. I feel strong, I feel like I could play tomorrow, I am just shaking off a bit of a bug and cold but otherwise physically I am great.
“For me it was a very good begin to grass courtroom season, it was good to get some matches. I’m disenchanted, however Katie performed and served in significantly very well.”
Raducanu’s last likelihood of taking part in aggressive tennis is on the Rothesay Worldwide in Eastbourne from June 24-29 earlier than the beginning of Wimbledon.
She made her breakthrough on the Grand Slam the place, barely two months out of faculty and and not using a Tour win to her identify, the 18-year-old made the fourth spherical on debut in 2021.
Whereas Raducanu will compete at Wimbledon, she has declined an invite to be a part of Staff GB at this summer season’s Olympics in Paris.
“I just don’t think there’s any need to put additional stress on my body or any risk, especially with my history,” she stated.
Fran Jones, and Heather Watson be a part of Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki as different wild playing cards into the ladies’s singles foremost draw.
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