{"id":351372,"date":"2026-01-04T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:38:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-united-cup-tie-against-naomi-osaka-as-gb-start-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351372\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdraws from United Cup tie against Naomi Osaka as GB start campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Raducanu withdrew from her tie against Naomi Osaka as Great Britain started their United Cup campaign against Japan in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British number one has not played since October and no reason was given for her pulling out against Osaka in Perth, in the lead up to the Australian Open, which begins in Melbourne on 18 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have to be honest, she was very close,&#8221; GB team captain Tim Henman told Australian broadcaster Nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t an easy decision. She had been building up and practising really well. But we just felt this morning it was a little bit too early.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain face Greece after their Group E tie against Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henman added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s necessarily out of this tournament just yet. So we&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdrew from her tie against Naomi Osaka as Great Britain started their United Cup campaign against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-351372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}