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A six-month road back?

Doubts over the fitness of Raducanu this month is nothing new. Her preparation for this year’s Australian Open was hindered by an ankle injury picked up in Auckland, the latest in a string of physical problems.

After being knocked out down under by Coco Gauff, Raducanu vowed to address her fitness issues before the French Open in May and June, implying her and Sachs had devised a plan: “I’m really buying into and trusting the work that I’m doing with Sebastian and the rest of the team,” she said. “So I’m feeling good and confident that, in six months’ time, I know it’s not going to be the finished product, but hopefully I would have made strides.”

Therefore, this reoccurrence of the wrist problem is untimely, to say the least.