{"id":672715,"date":"2026-01-04T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672715\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:06:15","slug":"emma-raducanu-british-no-1-withdraws-from-opening-match-at-united-cup-due-to-unknown-injury-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672715\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu: British No 1 withdraws from opening match at United Cup due to unknown injury | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu withdrew from her opening match at the United Cup due to an unknown injury – but Great Britain captain Tim Henman is hopeful she will not miss the entire tournament.<\/p>\n

Raducanu, 23, was scheduled to play against Japan’s Naomi Osaka in Perth on Sunday, only to pull out and be replaced by Katie Swan in the women’s singles.<\/p>\n

Henman told Australian broadcaster Nine of Raducanu, who has not played since ending her 2025 season in October after a bout of illness in China: “I’ve got to be honest, she was very, very close.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

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\n Raducanu ended her 2025 season early in October after illness<\/p>\n

“It was not any easy decision. She had been building up and practising really well. I don’t think she is necessarily out of this tournament just yet.”<\/p>\n

Billy Harris – a replacement for the injured Jack Draper for GB – beat Japan’s Shintaro Mochizuki 7-6 (6-4) 6-3 before Swann stepped up to face four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

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\n Billy Harris put GB 1-0 up in their United Cup tie with Japan in Perth<\/p>\n

In the United Cup, 18 countries are split into six groups of three and play the other teams in their pool once each before the six group winners and two second-placed teams reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Each tie consists of one men’s, one women’s and one mixed doubles match, with Olivia Nicholls and Neal Skupski poised to represent Great Britain in the latter.<\/p>\n

Watch the United Cup and lots more tennis live on Sky Sports in 2026. Stream tennis and more top sport contract-free with NOW.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdrew from her opening match at the United Cup due to an unknown injury – but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-672715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115835331279339023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672715","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=672715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}