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<\/p>\nEmma Raducanu has entered the WTA 500 tournament in Linz, which runs from April 6 to 12, meaning she’s all but ruled herself out of representing Britain in the Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n
The British number one’s decision to compete in Austria clashes directly with the national team’s qualifier against Australia, scheduled for that very same week.<\/p>\n
It’s another instance of Raducanu prioritising regular tour events over the team competition often dubbed the ‘World Cup’ of women’s tennis.<\/p>\n
The world number 24 appears to have chosen the chance to collect valuable ranking points rather than pulling on the British jersey once again.<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu has entered the WTA 500 tournament in Linz, which runs from April 6 to 12<\/p>\n
| GETTY<\/p>\n
The Linz tournament is switching things up this year, moving from its traditional hard court surface to indoor clay.<\/p>\n
It’s a strong field too, with Raducanu joining fellow former Grand Slam winners Jelena Ostapenko, Barbora Krejcikova and Marketa Vondrousova.<\/p>\n
Former world number one Karolina Pliskova has also committed to the event, alongside ex-top-10 players Emma Navarro and Daria Kasatkina.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the British BJK Cup squad face a rather tricky assignment, taking on Australia from April 10 to 11 at John Cain Arena inside Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n
It’s an awkward trip to the other side of the world on hard courts, only to then fly straight back to Europe for the clay court season.<\/p>\n
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Anne Keothavong had already expressed her disappointment that Emma Raducanu decided against joining the Billie Jean King Cup team last year<\/p>\n
| REUTERS<\/p>\n
Raducanu hasn’t turned out for the British BJK Cup team since the end of 2024, and last year she gave both qualifier ties against Germany and the Netherlands a miss.<\/p>\n
Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal and Jodie Burrage stepped up in her place and did the job, booking Britain’s spot in the BJK Cup Finals.<\/p>\n
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But Raducanu also withdrew from those finals in Shenzhen, opting instead for a wildcard at the Korea Open in Seoul.<\/p>\n
Captain Anne Keothavong didn’t hide her feelings about it, calling her absence “disappointing”.<\/p>\n
Raducanu last played in Linz back in 2021 when it was still a hard court event, losing to Xinyu Wang in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has entered the WTA 500 tournament in Linz, which runs from April 6 to 12, meaning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6962,2331,217,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-sgg","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471481","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=471481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}