Emma Raducanu’s season OVER after suffering wrist injury with Brit ruled out for rest of the year
EMMA RADUCANU’s WTA season is over due to a wrist injury.
And the Brit, 19, faces a race against time to be fit for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Glasgow.
The 2021 US Open champion has withdrawn from next week’s Transylvania Open in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where she had been granted a wildcard.
It also means she is out of the Guadalajara Open in Mexico, which starts on October 17.
Her team have confirmed that she will not play on the women’s Tour again until the start of the 2023 season – which should be at the inaugural United Cup in Australia – and it is expected she will now go on holiday.
The world No.67 is set to represent Britain in ITF team combat next month provided the wrist issue has fully healed.
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Raducanu had looked okay and without discomfort in her first-round defeat on Tuesday at the Ostrava Open.
But she pulled out of the Korea Open semi-final against Jelena Ostapenko last month with a sore glute.
This is the latest in a series of physical setbacks for the Kent teen in the 13 months since triumphing in New York.
She has had side and leg problems as well as issues with her wrist, thigh, back and persistent hand and feet blisters.
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Raducanu had been relishing a return to the Transylvania Open after reaching the quarter-finals last year before losing 2-6 1-6 to Marta Kostyuk.
She said last week: "I had a really fun time last year in Cluj, the people were amazing and made me feel so so welcome so I'm really excited and happy to say I'm coming back again this year.
"Whenever I can I love to go back to Romania, it's where my dad came from, and I have so many positive and happy memories from there so I'm really looking forward to coming back."
Meanwhile, the £1milllion that Amazon Prime Video received from Channel 4 for broadcasting the 2021 US Open final on terrestrial TV will be reinvested into British tennis.
Raducanu’s victory over Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the New York final was watched by a peak audience of 9.2million 13 months ago.
Prime Video and LTA have now launched a multi-year programme to inspire thousands of girls to play the sport with funding available for coaches, training kits and equipment.
Raducanu, 19, said: “I’m extremely pleased to see the funds generated from the US Open final go towards this new programme.
“It’s a step in the right direction to bring more young girls into the sport and will continue to support a bright future for women’s tennis in this country.”