{"id":732614,"date":"2026-06-29T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:46:17","slug":"emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-wimbledon-hours-before-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732614\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdraws from Wimbledon hours before opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from Wimbledon because of a right foot injury that plagued her leading up to the Grand Slam tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 30th seed was slated to face Antonia Ruzic on No. 1 Court on Monday before she made the announcement in a statement posted to social media Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but sadly I\u2019ve had to withdraw from this year\u2019s Wimbledon,\u201d the 23-year-old said in her statement. \u201cI\u2019ve done everything possible to try to get to the start line tomorrow but after a final scan tonight, the \u00adniggle I\u2019ve been managing has developed into a stress fracture and I\u2019ve been medically advised to stop pushing through.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39829031\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/britains-emma-raducanu-relaxes-practice-132588592.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Raducanu rests on the grass with tennis rackets and a bag next to her at Wimbledon.\" class=\"wp-image-39829031\"  \/>Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu relaxes at the practice courts at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 28, 2026, ahead of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying at Wimbledon, in front of a home crowd, means everything to me, so this is really difficult to process. I want to thank you all for your support and encouragement. Especially at a time like this, it is invaluable. I look forward to seeing you when I\u2019m back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has been a tough run for the 2021 U.S. Open champion, who has been dealing with illness and injury for a better part of the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was dealing with a virus in February, and then a post-viral illness kept her off the court between March and May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The foot issue has been something she has been dealing with during the clay court season and had gotten worse following her run to the final of the HSBC Championships at Queen\u2019s Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu had taken off practicing on Thursday and Friday and a Saturday practice session ended early.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She did a one-hour practice session with her hitting partner Alexis Cante, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/28\/emma-raducanu-pledges-to-do-everything-in-race-for-fitness-at-wimbledon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Guardian reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39829029\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-britains-emma-raducanu-practice-132574909.jpg\" alt=\"Britain's Emma Raducanu playing tennis during practice.\" class=\"wp-image-39829029\"  \/>Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu during practice ahead of the tournament. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>And Raducanu seemed like she would play the tournament when she faced reporters on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to do everything with my team in terms of treatment, and that\u2019s the current plan. That\u2019s the plan right now \u2014 to play,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sport\/tennis\/article-15936865\/Emma-Raducanu-Wimbledon-British-No-1-forced-withdraw-eve-tournament-stress-fracture-leg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per the Daily Mail. <\/a>\u201cI have a lower-leg niggle that I\u2019ve been dealing with since before Queen\u2019s \u2014 actually from the back end of the clay-court season. I\u2019ve been managing it. Five matches [at Queen\u2019s] after having not competed for a while, I think it was just a lot of load. But I\u2019m just managing it with my team as best as I possibly can, exhausting all options, and doing what we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from Wimbledon because of a right foot injury that plagued her leading up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1701,99,428,96],"class_list":["post-732614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732614","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=732614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}