Emma Raducanu has disclosed that rice was essential to her healing process. After undergoing surgery on both wrists and one ankle, the tennis player missed most of last year’s play and didn’t return until the Billie Jean King Cup in April.

Raducanu has made it clear that her road to rehabilitation was difficult, posting pictures of herself in the hospital on social media and disclosing in interviews that her restricted range of motion made her doubt if she would ever be able to resume her sport.

But now that she’s back loving tennis and aiming to reach the heights that once made her one of the most exciting prospects, the 21-year-old is doing so because of a staple food item.

Raducanu stated in an interview that the practice of immersing her arm in buckets of rice for prolonged periods was known as rice therapy and that it played a significant role in her recovery.

She explained: “When someone comes into the rehab room with a bucket of rice, you don’t really think that it’s for wrist recovery. I put my hand in the bucket of rice at least twice a day, up to 75 minutes, and I moved my hands, twisted them, squeezed them, and pressed them. It helps. You feel a burning sensation in your forearm. It strengthens the muscles in your hand, wrist and upper arm. Every little muscle in your hand is used.”

When asked if the medication had caused her to give up rice, she answered: “No, not really. You see the bucket of rice and think: Not again, because the rehab session took up a lot of time. But I still love eating rice. I’m sticking to that.”

Emma Raducanu in 2024

Now the world no.94, Raducanu played her last match on the 7^th of July when she capitulated to world no.53 LuluAnke Sun 6-2 5-7 6-2 in the 4^th round in Wimbledon (draw).

At present, during this year Emma has achieved a composed 16-10 match record. Emma Raducanu’s most significant result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Nottingham.

Emma Raducanu will face the world no.49 Viktoriya Tomova in the final. Their current head to head is 1-0 for Tomova.