Only three months after having surgery on both hands, Emma Raducanu revealed that she was afraid for her future when she experienced a return of her ongoing wrist pain in August 2023.
Raducanu believed she was prepared for regular yellow tennis balls as she worked her way through the four colors, beginning with the kid-friendly red balls. But the pain returned in less than two weeks for her.
Asked if that moment had been scary, Raducanu replied: “Actually, yes. I started hitting in August and after, I’d say, the first eight or nine days, I was feeling pain and then it just didn’t go away. And then I didn’t start hitting again with the yellow ball until, pretty much, the last week of November. I was just worried.”
Raducanu said, concerning her rehabilitation last summer: “I was always going to feel pain in my wrist. But I mean, credit to the surgeon, he did a great job.”
Raducanu in Indian Wells, ranking, and results in 2024
Currently ranked no.
250, Raducanu achieved a compiled 5-4 win-loss record in 2024. Emma is now having a run in Indian Wells where she managed to beat the world no.96 Rebeka Masarova 6-2 6-3 and the world no.31 Dayana Yastremska 4-0 ret..Emma Raducanu will square off with the world no.2 Aryna Sabalenka in the 3rd round. In the past, they have never played each other until now in top competitions.