Emma Raducanu will MISS Billie Jean King Cup clash with France next month as she manages wrist soreness – leaving Great Britain without a top 100 singles player to choose from
- Emma Raducanu to miss Great Britain’s meeting with France next month
- Raducanu’s wrist soreness will once again prevent her from being available
- It’s the third time less than six months she hasn’t been able to play for Team GB
Emma Raducanu has made herself unavailable again for Great Britain’s main women’s tennis team as they prepare to meet France in Coventry next month.
The reason being cited is again the management of the wrist soreness which has been bothering her, although she was able to make the last sixteen at Indian Wells this week with impressive wins over top 25 opposition.
She will miss the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round match which will determine who goes through to this year’s finals event.
It is the third time in less than six months that Raducanu has not been available for GB team duties.
She missed the 2022 Finals in Glasgow, also citing a wrist problem, and then elected not to play in the mixed United Cup in Australia, prior to the Open.
Emma Raducanu will play not part of Great Britain’s clash with France down to wrist soreness
She will be absent from the event on April 14-15 but is still expected to play in the following week’s WTA event in Stuttgart, which is sponsored by one of the companies she endorses, Porsche.
The explanation given is that she is still managing the wrist situation, and that Stuttgart is being played on an indoor clay surface, as opposed to the hard court being used in Coventry.
It leaves GB without a top 100 player singles player to choose from, and two will have to be picked from Harriet Dart, Katie Boulter and Heather Watson, with Alicia Barnett and Olive Nicholls playing the doubles.
This will be the third time in less than six months that Raducanu has been unavailable
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