Emma Raducanu has signed up for a clay-court match as she continues to construct her 2026 schedule.
Emma Raducanu has signed up for the WTA 500 occasion in Linz (Picture: Getty)
Emma Raducanu has added one other match to her schedule as she appears forward to the clay swing, her weakest floor. The British No. 1 has signed up for the WTA 500 occasion in Linz, which takes place from April 6 to 12. Nonetheless, she has now successfully dominated herself out of Britain’s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier tie in opposition to Australia, which takes place that week.
The Higher Austria Women Linz has sometimes been staged on onerous courts, however will swap to an indoor clay occasion this 12 months. Raducanu is one among 4 former Grand Slam champions within the discipline, alongside Jelena Ostapenko, Barbora Krejcikova, and Marketa Vondrousova.
Filipino tennis sensation Alexandra Eala is about to make her match debut in Linz. Former world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova has additionally signed up for the match, as have former top-10ers Emma Navarro and Daria Kasatkina. Dayana Yastremka, Clara Tauson and Jaqueline Cristian be part of them within the draw.
Anastasia Potapova will compete in Linz for the primary time since she switched nationalities from Russian to Austrian. The Austrian crowd will even see Lili Tagger, Julia Grabher and Sinja Kraus in motion on house soil.
Whereas Raducanu’s participation within the WTA 500 occasion is nice information for match organisers in Linz, it means she has all however confirmed that she is not going to characterize Britain within the BJK Cup – the ‘World Cup’ of girls’s tennis – this April.
The British squad have been given a really awkward tie, going through Australia from April 10 to 11 on a tough court docket inside John Cain Area, contained in the Australian Open Melbourne Park facility. It’s a troublesome journey to the opposite facet of the world to compete on a tough court docket, simply to fly again to Europe for the clay swing.
Emma Raducanu final represented Britain within the BJK Cup in late 2024 (Picture: Getty)
Raducanu has not represented the British BJK Cup workforce for the reason that finish of 2024. Final 12 months, she skipped their qualifier ties in opposition to Germany and the Netherlands in April. In her absence, Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, and Jodie Burrage stepped as much as e book Britain’s place within the BJK Cup Finals.
The world No. 24 additionally pulled out of final 12 months’s BJK Cup Finals in Shenzhen and took a wildcard into the Korea Open in Seoul as an alternative. Captain Anne Keothavong known as her absence “disappointing”.
And Raducanu has chosen an everyday WTA Tour occasion – and the chance to earn all-important rankings factors – over the workforce competitors once more. The British No. 1 final competed in Linz again in 2021, when it was a hard-court match staged in November. She misplaced to Xinyu Wang within the first spherical.
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