By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday January 5, 2022
One in every of Emma Raducanu’s high objectives for 2023 was to stay wholesome. The British star is already discovering it tough within the season’s first week, after turning an ankle and being pressured to retire from her spherical of 16 contest with Slovakia’s Viktoria Kuzmova on the ASB Traditional in Auckland.
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The harm places Raducanu’s hopes of enjoying in Australia in jeopardy. The Australian Open begins on Monday January 16.
Raducanu hinted that the courts weren’t within the biggest form at Auckland, after gamers have been pressured to maneuver indoors because of incessant rain within the space.
Actually robust for Emma Raducanu with yet one more harm. She retired from her second-round ASB Traditional match v Viktoria Kuzmova after successful 1st set 6-0 & shedding second 5-7. An enormous blow simply 11 days from #AusOpen.She’s been plagued so much having retired 5 occasions injured final yr. pic.twitter.com/BPYUrOtOd9
— Georgie Heath (@GeorgieHeath27) January 5, 2023
“The courts are extremely slick, so to be sincere it is not a shock that this occurred to somebody,” stated Raducanu, based on quotes printed by Stuff Media. “It is tough to take. I’ve put a number of bodily work in the previous couple of months and I have been feeling good and optimistic – So to be stopped by a freak harm, rolling an ankle, is fairly disappointing.”
The quarterfinals will happen on Friday in Auckland, with American Coco Gauff main the best way as high seed. Right here is how they form up:
Quarterfinals Auckland
🇺🇸 Gauff v Zhu 🇨🇳🇸🇰 Kuzmova v Kovinic 🇲🇪🇧🇪 Bonaventure v Fernandez 🇨🇦🇨🇿 Muchova v Masarova 🇪🇸
— TennisNow (@Tennis_Now) January 6, 2023
