{"id":731752,"date":"2026-06-28T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:11:16","slug":"emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-wimbledon-with-right-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731752\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdraws from Wimbledon with right leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALL ENGLAND CLUB, London \u2014 Emma Raducanu<\/a> has withdrawn from Wimbledon<\/a> with a stress fracture in her lower leg.<\/p>\n

The highest-ranked British player in the women\u2019s draw, Raducanu was seeded No. 30 and had been scheduled to play Croatia\u2019s Antonia Ru\u017ei\u0107 Monday. She said in a news conference Sunday afternoon that her plan was still to play the event despite what she called a \u201clower leg niggle\u201d.<\/p>\n

After missing practice earlier in the week and then cutting a session short on Saturday, however, Raducanu wrote on Instagram Sunday night that: \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but sadly I\u2019ve had to withdraw from this year\u2019s Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done everything possible to try to get to the start line tomorrow but after a final scan tonight, the niggle I\u2019ve been managing has developed into a stress fracture and I\u2019ve been medically advised to stop pushing through.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying at Wimbledon, in front of a home crowd, means everything to me, so this is really difficult to process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The injury adds to a difficult 2026 for Raducanu, who was managing a foot injury at the start of the year, and then had a post-viral illness from February until May.<\/p>\n

She recovered in time for the French Open, but in an emotional news conference after losing to Solana Sierra in the first round, she said that all the injury setbacks she had endured since winning the U.S. Open as an 18-year-old in 2021 had been \u201cvery difficult.\u201d She added, while fighting back tears, that: \u201cI think you need a lot of resilience. I think I\u2019m trying my best each day, and I think that\u2019s all I can ask of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was upbeat in Sunday\u2019s news conference, but said that: \u201cI\u2019ve had a tough start to the season, a lot of time out. I think hearing and feeling this is difficult. I have great people around me. I think that\u2019s one thing that\u2019s really been helping in this latest setback. I think having their support, they\u2019re really in it with me. It means a lot to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Raducanu, an accomplished grass-court player, then reached the final of Queen\u2019s \u2014 the prestigious Wimbledon warm-up event \u2014 earlier this month. It was only her second final since that U.S. Open win, and both of those have come this year, but she ultimately ran out of gas and lost in straight sets to 2024 Wimbledon semifinalist Donna Veki\u0107.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have just been dealing with a few niggles over the past few weeks,\u201d Raducanu said in a news conference afterwards. \u201cAnd of course the load I have had in the last week \u2014 it\u2019s been a great problem to have, playing this many matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

After that encouraging run at Queen\u2019s, there was optimism that Raducanu could kick on and have another run at her home Slam, where she has twice reached the fourth round. Her tennis has looked more fluent than it has done in months since she reunited with Andrew Richardson, who coached her to the U.S. Open title.<\/p>\n

But over the past couple of weeks, Raducanu pulled out of the Nottingham Open and then the Eastbourne Open. She hoped to be ready for Wimbledon, but on Sunday had to accept defeat.<\/p>\n

Raducanu\u2019s place in the draw, and slot against Ru\u017ei\u010d, will go to a lucky loser from qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALL ENGLAND CLUB, London \u2014 Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from Wimbledon with a stress fracture in her lower…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-731752","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\/731752","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=731752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}