{"id":42038,"date":"2026-05-06T04:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/italian-open-emma-raducanu-withdraws-with-post-viral-illness-shortly-after-media-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:39:58","slug":"italian-open-emma-raducanu-withdraws-with-post-viral-illness-shortly-after-media-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/italian-open-emma-raducanu-withdraws-with-post-viral-illness-shortly-after-media-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Emma Raducanu withdraws with post-viral illness shortly after media conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu last played a match in Indian Wells on 8 March, and has since missed the Miami Open and clay-court events in Linz and Madrid because of her post-viral symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the 23-year-old has been practising in recent weeks at the National Tennis Centre in London and at the Ferrer Academy near Benidorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had been accompanied in Rome by Jane O&#8217;Donoghue, a friend and former LTA national coach, and physio Emma Stewart, who perhaps tellingly was with Raducanu during her interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coming on to the clay courts is much more physically demanding than potentially other surfaces but I want to come back 100% ready,&#8221; Raducanu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been building my way up slowly and looking forward to when I get out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We now know she will not be getting out there in Rome this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu has one last chance to play a WTA event before the French Open in either Strasbourg or Rabat in two weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But if she misses the entire clay swing, then Raducanu will have been absent for three months by the time the grass-court season begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even if Raducanu is fit to compete at Roland Garros, which begins on 24 May, she will do so as an unseeded player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2021 US Open champion is currently 30 in the world rankings but only 32 players are seeded &#8211; and she will drop several places now she is no longer able to defend the points she earned from a fourth-round run in Rome last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c707kn51eylo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raducanu last played a match in Indian Wells on 8 March, and has since missed the Miami Open and clay-court events in Linz and Madrid because of her post-viral symptoms. However, the 23-year-old has been practising in recent weeks at the National Tennis Centre in London and at the Ferrer Academy near Benidorm. She had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42040,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions\/42040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}