Emma Raducanu would not wish to make any clear predictions for her 2025 season because the Briton suggests even she just isn’t fairly positive about what is feasible and simply desires to “explore” issues this yr.
In 2024, the 22-year-old loved a strong 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 might make some strong 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 continuously set objectives and re-evaluate however for subsequent yr my outlook and method is genuinely similar 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 think it’s like a one year – ‘yeah, I’ve hit it, you know, I’m going to hit it all this year’. [I’ve] got myself into a place where I can get into tournaments with my ranking and now it’s just about pushing on and seeing how far I can go.”
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Raducanu’s 2025 season began in a unfavorable method
Within the offseason, the Briton employed Maria Sharapova’s former long-time health coach Yutaka Nakamura to assist her get stronger and reduce the danger of accidents.
However then, she was compelled to withdraw from her very first scheduled match of the yr in Auckland because of a again harm.
In her message, Raducanu stated it was a not too long ago 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.