{"id":479569,"date":"2026-03-17T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:13","slug":"emma-raducanu-british-number-one-pulls-out-of-miami-open-as-she-continues-recovery-from-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479569\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: British number one pulls out of Miami Open as she continues recovery from illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number two Sonay Kartal has also been ruled out of the Miami Open after she failed to recover from a back injury in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal impressed by getting to the last 16 at Indian Wells before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c80jn4p84ngo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawing during her match<\/a> against Elena Rybakina with the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old had been due to play American Peyton Stearns her first-round match but has decided to pull out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Britain&#8217;s Fran Jones has been drawn against American great Venus Williams in the first round of the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams, now 45, became the second oldest woman to win a WTA Tour-level singles match by beating Stearns at the Washington Open last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, the seven-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one has  lost eight out of eight singles matches, with her latest defeat coming against France&#8217;s Diane Parry in the first round at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams is 517 in the women&#8217;s ranking, while 25-year-old Jones is ranked 93rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Aryna Sabalenka, who won the tournament at Indian Wells, will start her Miami Open campaign in the second round against American Ann Li or a qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number two Sonay Kartal has also been ruled out of the Miami Open after she failed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479569","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=479569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}