Emma Raducanu fitness update after latest injury setback

Shahida Jacobs
Emma Raducanu looks on during a practice session in Nottingham
Emma Raducanu looks on during a practice session

Emma Raducanu appears to be winning her battle to be fit for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals with her team issuing a positive update ahead of the tournament.

The world No 58 has not featured on the WTA Tour since the quarter-final at the Korea Open in mid-September when she retired after the first set due to a foot injury.

Raducanu sustained the injury earlier in the tournament, but battled on before calling it quits during the last-eight encounter against Daria Kasatkina.

Although it was initially thought that the injury was not too serious, she was forced to withdraw from the WTA 1000 events, the China Open and the Wuhan Open qualifiers.

The 2021 US Open champion then returned to UK and was spotted wearing a protected boot on her injured foot and it was later confirmed that she would also miss the Ningbo Open Guangzhou Open and the Hong Kong Open.

Last week’s Hong Kong event was due to be her last regular WTA Tour event of the 2024 season before attention turns to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

Raducanu – who has a 20–13 win-loss record on the WTA Tour this year – has been included in Anne Keothavong’s Great Britain squad alongside Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, Heather Watson and Olivia Nicholls for the tie against Germany on November 15.

And her team have confirmed that she is on course to feature as they told the Daily Mail: “Emma is training well and being with the team next week is her focus.”

The 21-year-old has been training at the LTA’s National Tennis Centre at Roehampton in recent days and is expected to be part of the Great Britain squad that travel to Malaga.

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Raducanu played a key role in GB’s qualification for the Finals as she won her singles rubbers against Caroline Garcia and Diane Parry during the 3-1 win over France in April.

She then kept that form going during the grass-court season and the start of the North American hard-court swing as she reached the semi-final in Nottingham, quarter-final in Eastbourne, the fourth round at Wimbledon and quarter-final at the Citi Open.

However, she then failed to play another pre-US Open warm-up event and slumped to first-round defeat at Flushing Meadows before making her return at the Korea Open a few weeks later.