Emma Raducanu confirms participation in this tournament as a lead up to Australian Open 2025
World No. 71 Emma Raducanu, before the 2025 Australian Open, will feature at the Hong Kong Open, a WTA 250 event.
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Emma Raducanu will feature in the Hong Kong Open, a WTA 250 event scheduled to start in October this year. The Hong Kong Open confirmed the same. It will be one of the tournaments she will play before the start of the 2025 Australian Open.
Raducanu recently skipped the 2024 Paris Olympics to play at the Citi Open instead. However, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by eventual winner Paula Badosa, who defeated the Brit in three sets.
As she was not given the wild card to feature in the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Open, she decided to skip the tournaments, as advancing to the main draw would require her to play the Qualifiers.
Before the Citi Open, Raducanu played three grass-court events, including the Wimbledon Championships, and made it to the fourth round, where New Zealand’s Lulu Sun stopped her from advancing to her first-ever quarterfinals at the SW19.
The World No. 71 has not yet won a title this season and is searching for her second title since winning the 2021 US Open. Raducanu also has an 18/11 win-loss record this year.
Monica Puig urges Emma Raducanu to play qualifying rounds
When Emma Raducanu was not handed the wild card for the French Open, she decided to skip the major event. Though her decision proved helpful later on, for she played decently on the grass-court season, her skipping the qualifying rounds of the two hard-court events in Montreal and Cincinnati was questioned by Monica Puig, a former WTA player.
The former player from Puerto Rico, who won the gold medal in singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, urged the 2021 US Open champion to not miss the tournaments before the US Open. Puig believes playing at the Qualifiers will help the 21-year-old get the momentum she needs before the event in New York.
Because let’s call it like it is, practice is practice, but playing in a match situation is something that can’t be replicated in practice and can only be done while competing. Not really sure what the play was here but hopefully she can find her form heading into the US Open.Monica Puig told Tennis Channel
The main draw of the US Open starts on 26th August and Raducanu will be bidding to win her second title there. In the 2021 US Open, the Brit defeated Leylah Fernandez to become the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title.
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