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Wrist injury could spell the end for Emma’s season

Matt Majendie

EMMA RADUCANU has suffered a new setback, with a wrist injury leading to her withdrawal from next week’s Transylvania Open.

The injury may also bring a premature end to her first full season on the WTA Tour, with the issue meaning she will also miss her only other scheduled event, in Guadalajara, the following week. Raducanu (above) could yet make one final appearance at the Bille Jean King Cup next month, with British captain Anne Keothavong set to name her team next week.

But the 19-year-old, who has had all manner of injury problems this season, could instead decide to pull the plug entirely on the season in a bid to focus on winter training and regaining full fitness for next year.

Raducanu looked to have made a breakthrough in a difficult season when she reached the semi-finals of the Korea Open — her first since last year’s US Open — but she pulled out of that last-four encounter against ex-French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in Seoul injured in the third set and then lost in the first round of the subsequent Ostrava Open.

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