{"id":504066,"date":"2026-03-30T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:13:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-suffers-setback-ahead-of-wimbledon-after-miami-open-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504066\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu suffers setback ahead of Wimbledon after Miami Open misery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has slipped five positions in the WTA rankings, now sitting at 28th in the world following her withdrawal from the Miami Open due to illness.<\/p>\n

The British number one’s absence from the prestigious tournament has proved particularly costly.<\/p>\n

She reached the quarter-finals of the same WTA 1000 event twelve months ago, meaning her non-participation this year has resulted in the loss of 185 ranking points.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old had been making steady progress up the standings throughout 2026, with several encouraging performances lifting spirits among British tennis supporters.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu has fallen five places in the WTA rankings <\/p>\n

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However, this setback marks an unwelcome interruption to what had been a promising campaign for the former US Open champion.<\/p>\n

Raducanu’s slide has allowed several competitors to overtake her in the standings, including Marta Kostyuk, Marie Bouzkova and American Emma Navarro.<\/p>\n

The latter’s advancement is somewhat ironic, given that Navarro’s own poor form earlier in March had inadvertently aided Raducanu’s climb.<\/p>\n

Navarro, the 24-year-old daughter of billionaire investor Ben Navarro, has exited at the first round in her last three WTA tournaments.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu has made several changes to her coaching set-up over the years<\/p>\n

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Yet Raducanu’s decline has been sufficiently steep that the American has risen without even competing.<\/p>\n

The Kent-born player achieved a career-best ranking of 10th in July 2022, just a year after her remarkable triumph at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n

She subsequently fell to 285th towards the end of 2023 amid persistent injury troubles.<\/p>\n

Raducanu has also made changes to her coaching setup in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

She re-appointed Mark Petchey shortly before the Indian Wells tournament, having previously parted ways with Fernando Roig, who formerly worked with Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n

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The British star’s last competitive outing came at Indian Wells at the beginning of March, where she suffered a comprehensive second-round defeat to Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n

The American dispatched Raducanu 6-1, 6-1 in a decidedly one-sided affair.<\/p>\n

That loss preceded her illness-enforced absence from Miami, leaving the former Grand Slam champion without match practice for several weeks.<\/p>\n

Her supporters will hope the coaching reunion with Petchey can help restore momentum when she returns to the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has slipped five positions in the WTA rankings, now sitting at 28th in the world following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504067,"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-504066","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\/504066","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=504066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}