Britain’s Emma Raducanu says she “plans to play” at Wimbledon on Monday despite her participation being put into serious doubt because of a leg injury.<\/p>\n
Raducanu, 23, made the decision to play after a short practice session at the All England Club on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Raducanu, who is seeded 30th, is due to start her campaign against Croatia’s Antonia Ruzic on Court One (13:00 BST).<\/p>\n
“I’m going to do everything with my team in terms of treatment,” said Raducanu, who would not put a percentage on her chances of playing.<\/p>\n
“The plan right now is to play.”<\/p>\n
Fears about the British number one’s fitness grew over the past week.<\/p>\n
Raducanu was spotted wearing a protective boot on Wednesday, then was unable to train on Thursday and Friday because of what is believed to be a shin problem.<\/p>\n
The 2021 US Open champion returned to the court on Saturday to test her fitness and, wearing strapping around her lower right leg, started with a gentle hour-long session with her team.<\/p>\n
But she then cut short another practice session with Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya – when the pair played a practice set – with 10 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Emma Raducanu says she “plans to play” at Wimbledon on Monday despite her participation being put into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-731307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731307","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=731307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}