Emma Raducanu would not wish to make any clear predictions for her 2025 season because the Briton suggests even she shouldn’t be fairly certain about what is feasible and simply desires to “discover” issues this yr.
In 2024, the 22-year-old loved a stable post-surgery comeback, making one WTA semifinal and ending the season simply exterior the top-60 on the earth.
Whereas Raducanu proved final season that she may make some stable outcomes, there are greater expectations on her than simply making an occasional deep run and being ranked across the top-50 on the earth.
”I continually set objectives and re-evaluate however for subsequent yr my outlook and method is genuinely identical to exploring how far I can go, how a lot of my potential I can attain,” the 22-year-old defined in Auckland.
“I don’t assume it’s like a one yr – ‘yeah, I’ve hit it, , I’m going to hit all of it this yr’. [I’ve] bought myself into a spot the place I can get into tournaments with my rating and now it’s nearly pushing on and seeing how far I can go.”
Raducanu’s 2025 season began in a unfavorable means
Within the offseason, the Briton employed Maria Sharapova’s former long-time health coach Yutaka Nakamura to assist her get stronger and decrease the danger of accidents.
However then, she was pressured to withdraw from her very first scheduled event of the yr in Auckland resulting from a again damage.
In her message, Raducanu stated it was a lately contracted niggle and insisted that she did her greatest to play however simply did not make it.
Except she accepts a wildcard into a few of subsequent week’s WTA tournaments, the previous world No. 10 will probably enter the Australian Open with none matches performed.
Anyway, it was not the beginning of the yr that Raducanu desired.
