Raducanu told season may be over as sports doctor assesses problems

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Emma Raducanu’s season may already be over after she underwent surgery on both wrists and her ankle, according to a leading sports doctor. Raducanu is set to miss the French Open and Wimbledon this year, revealing that she would miss the summer tennis events as she seeks to resolve a couple of long-term fitness issues.

The 20-year-old could apparently face a race against time to be fit for the US Open in September, the tournament she famously won as a qualifier in 2021. However, she could instead decide to focus on preparing for next season.

That is the view of Ralph Rogers, a consultant in regenerative orthopaedics and sports medicine. Rogers previously worked with Premier League side Chelsea and is now a medical advisor to the NBA.

“May, June, July, August – yeah, it could be (too soon) because it’s not only that you’re fit enough to play, you have to be match fit,” Rogers told Sky Sports.

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“You have to go through the rigours, you have to be able to spend three hours on the court. She’s a heck of a prospect, I love watching her play, but we have to give her chance to heal and maybe look towards next season.”

Raducanu announced she had undergone surgeries on both her hands and her ankle earlier this week. Set to drop out of the WTA top 100, the Briton has struggled with fitness problems for at least a year and has finally undergone procedures in a bid to solve the issues.

Rogers added: “It’s difficult for me to speculate what surgery she has had and why she’s had it, but after surgeries there is a time of healing and you take anything from five or seven days just as a healing period and then you go into a range of movement, strength, from strength you go into physiotherapy and there’s the sport-specific training like getting back to tennis.

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“There has to be a complete healing process or, again, due to the load she can re-injure herself.

“It’s rest, gradual increase in load, there’s the range of movement, there’s the strength, even depending on the injury there’s proprioception which is joints awareness and space, and then you get to the sport-specific rehabilitation or training in order to get back on the court.

“Even then once you get back on the tennis court there’s a gradual increase in load, because if you load a joint or injury too quickly you can again re-injure yourself.”

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