Emma Raducanu all set to break into the top-15 despite poor outing at Australian Open
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Emma Raducanu
Emma Raducanu is definitely one of the most talked-about athletes on tour. She stunned the world last year by becoming the first qualifier in tennis history to win a grand slam. The US Open was just her third tour-level tournament and rightly so, such an instant rise was something tennis had never seen.
Needless to say, given her British connection, she became an overnight sensation all across the world. She was projected as the next big thing in women’s tennis but she hasn’t delivered yet as promised. Post her historic triumph, Emma has barely managed to clear the initial rounds of our level tournaments. Her best result has a quarterfinal outing at the Translyvania Open.
She started her 2022 season at Sydney where she lost her opening round match to Elena Rybakina. But she bounced back at the Australian Open and won her first-round match on debut, beating former US Open champion Sloane Stephens in three tight sets. But she lost her very next match to Danka Kovinic in the second round.
When Emma made her tour debut at Wimbledon last year, she was ranked outside the top 300, and post her US Open triumph, she broke into the top 25 of the world. She has constantly risen up the ranks because her fellow players have dropped down. And despite a poor outing at the Australian Open, she will achieve a new career-high ranking. Most of the players have dropped a lot of points from last year’s tournament while Raducanu didn’t because she was playing her first Oz Open. She gained 69 points in the tournament and with 2664 points, she will become the new World No.14.
Raducanu to return on tour at Guadalajara
Raducanu is back training this week and will take a couple of weeks off before returning on tour. So far, she hasn’t decided whether to compete in the Middle-Eastern leg or not. But she is scheduled to travel to Mexico and play the Abierto Akron Zapopan, a WTA 250 event in Guadalajara. The tournament will begin on February 21 and will feature Raducanu as the top seed.
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