{"id":387154,"date":"2026-01-04T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387154\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:28:08","slug":"emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-united-cup-clash-against-naomi-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387154\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdraws from United Cup clash against Naomi Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British No. 1 Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her opening clash with Naomi Osaka at the United Cup in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was scheduled to represent Team GB against the four-time major winner on Sunday, but pulled out ahead of the match due to an unknown injury.<\/p>\n<p>Team GB captain Tim Henman told Australian broadcaster Nine: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to be honest, she was very, very close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not any easy decision. She had been building up and practising really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/47484974\/naomi-osaka-hopes-illness-clears-australian-open\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1556843_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henman said he hoped she would be fit for Team GB&#8217;s next group stage clash against Greece.<\/p>\n<p>He told Nine: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think she is necessarily out of this tournament just yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osaka will instead face British No. 10 Katie Swan.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu withdrew from two exhibition matches late last year in order to focus on getting fit for the start of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British No. 1 Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her opening clash with Naomi Osaka at the United Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-387154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}