LONDON — Emma Raducanu will miss the French Open and Wimbledon after asserting Wednesday that she is having what she referred to as “minor” procedures on each fingers and an ankle and expects to be sidelined for “the next few months.”
The 2021 U.S. Open champion, a 20-year-old from Britain, has struggled with a collection of accidents, most not too long ago pulling out of the Madrid Open due to a hand drawback.
Raducanu stated on her social media accounts that she’s handled “a recurring injury on a bone of both hands” for the previous 10 months. She posted a photograph of herself in a hospital mattress along with her proper wrist and hand bandaged.
“I’m disappointed to share that I will be out for the next few months and while I am at it will have another minor procedure that is due on my ankle,” the Eighty fifth-ranked Raducanu wrote. “It pains me that I will miss the summer events and I tried to downplay the issues so I thank all my fans who continued to support me when you did not know the facts.”
Raducanu turned one of many stars of tennis in 2021, when she made a shocking run to the fourth spherical at Wimbledon as an adolescent ranked exterior the highest 300, then, quickly after, received the U.S. Open to turn out to be the primary qualifier to assert a Grand Slam singles title.
She hasn’t made it previous the second spherical at a significant event since.
This season, Raducanu has a 5-5 file and hasn’t performed since a straight-set loss to Jelena Ostapenko final month within the first spherical at Stuttgart, Germany.
“I tried my best to manage the pain and play through it for most of this year and end of last year by reducing practice load dramatically, missing weeks of training as well as cutting last season short to try heal it,” Raducanu wrote Wednesday. “Unfortunately it’s not enough. I’m having a minor procedure done on both hands to resolve the issues.”
The French Open begins on May 28; Wimbledon begins on July 3.
A message on Wimbledon’s Twitter feed Wednesday stated: “We’ll miss you this year, Emma – rest up and come back stronger.”
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