{"id":178512,"date":"2025-06-12T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178512\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:43:11","slug":"emma-raducanu-may-be-taking-unnecessary-risk-ahead-of-wimbledon-after-her-decision-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178512\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu may be taking unnecessary risk ahead of Wimbledon after her decision at Queen’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Emma Raducanu will be hoping to attack the grass-court season this year, given it is a surface she has enjoyed success on in the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And, given it is only a short part of the tennis calendar, the opportunities to compete on it are sparse.<\/p>\n

In the past, Eastbourne and Nottingham have been a large part of her Wimbledon<\/a> preparation, but this year she has also opted to take part in Queen\u2019s, which is allowing women to compete for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n

It was a historic opportunity that the Brit could not pass up, but one decision she has made might be risking her chances of playing in the next big Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

After all, her latest fitness update was far from ideal.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu delivers fitness update ahead of Queen\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of Queen\u2019s earlier this week, Emma Raducanu<\/a> admitted: \u2018I got back from Paris last week and then I got straight back on the court.<\/p>\n

\u2018I had a small interruption with a bit of a back spasm again, which was a bit annoying and that hindered my grass prep. But the last few days I have managed to get on the grass.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I can\u2019t really predict the future. I know I have been managing my back for the last few weeks now and it\u2019s something that comes and goes.<\/p>\n

\u2018It can be frustrating. I try not to let it get to me because I have a pretty good feel when it happens of how to manage it. All I can do is deal with what\u2019s in front of me.<\/p>\n

\u2018Today was the first day I opened it up and played points on the grass. It is pretty early days and I can\u2019t say I have had a lot of prep on it.\u2019<\/p>\n

She therefore admitted that she is not putting too much pressure on results in the coming weeks, noting: \u2018Of course you want to win this tournament, like every tournament, but especially when it\u2019s at home. But my expectations are pretty low.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Raducanu headlines an already strong Queen\u2019s lineup this year<\/a> as the women return to action at this event.<\/p>\n

Could Emma Raducanu be doing too much ahead of Wimbledon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It feels like, when expectations are low is when Raducanu thrives.<\/p>\n

Nobody expected a qualifier to win the US Open, yet she accomplished it. Nobody expected her to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon last year with such ease, yet the 22-year-old managed to.<\/p>\n

Clearly thriving in the underdog role, it feels like she will certainly be given that mantle once again heading into these next few events.<\/p>\n

However, with such a recurring back injury, there\u2019s a worry that she might actually be putting too much on her plate ahead of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

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After all, even if they exit early, Raducanu\u2019s decision to play doubles with Katie Boulter at Queen\u2019s alongside singles might be putting additional unnecessary effort onto a body that has broken down routinely in the past.<\/p>\n

And with Eastbourne and the German Open potentially to come too, all before Wimbledon, there\u2019s a fear that she may be risking too much.<\/p>\n

Annabel Croft certainly thought as much, noting after her first win: \u2018[There wasn\u2019t] any sign of that whatsoever, if her back was really bad, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d see her be playing doubles with Katie Boulter, you wouldn\u2019t want to stress your body any more than you would want to. I think some of these niggles, it\u2019s a little bit like when you agree to run the marathon, you start feeling like your legs and knees are hurting before you go out there to run it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Decisions like this can either go one of two ways: she could find form and fitness and put herself in the perfect position for a strong campaign at the All England Club, or struggle once again to be fit enough to compete.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, it\u2019s the former that rings true by the time Wimbledon comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu will be hoping to attack the grass-court season this year, given it is a surface she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[1070,52299,79,1068,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-178512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-queens","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670692500395113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}