{"id":654307,"date":"2026-05-06T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:27:10","slug":"emma-raducanu-briton-targets-wta-tour-return-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654307\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: Briton targets WTA Tour return in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Raducanu is targeting a return to the WTA Tour in Strasbourg in two weeks&#8217; time following her withdrawal from the Italian Open on health grounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British number one is, however, reliant on a wildcard having missed the entry deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu, 23, was granted a wildcard for last year&#8217;s WTA 500 event and beat top 20 player Daria Kasatkina, before losing to American Danielle Collins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament, which starts on 17 May, has not yet confirmed whether a wildcard will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu pulled out of the Italian Open late on Tuesday, just minutes after completing a round of media interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She does not feel she has recovered 100% from a post-viral infection which has kept her away from the tour since March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before her withdrawal, Raducanu told BBC Sport: &#8220;I had six weeks almost of doing nothing just trying to recover from the virus, and it takes a lot out of you physically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event in Strasbourg takes place the week before the French Open, for which Raducanu will no longer be seeded &#8211; assuming she is fit to compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu is targeting a return to the WTA Tour in Strasbourg in two weeks&#8217; time following her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-654307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}