Emma Raducanu withdraws with injury from China Open in further fitness blow
The TelegraphThis is the first genuine injury setback that Raducanu has experienced this season, after making her return from double wrist and ankle surgery at the start of the year. The foot problem forced her to retire from her quarter-final in Seoul on Saturday morning after losing the first set 6-1 to top seed Daria Kasatkina. Raducanu scored two wins in Seoul last week: the first a scrappy affair against Peyton Stearns and the second a much cleaner performance against last year’s finalist Yue Yuan. Harriet Dart will face talented Danish 21-year-old Clara Tauson in the first round, while 26th seed Katie Boulter has a first-round bye before coming up against either Italian clay-court specialist Martina Trevisan or American net-rusher Taylor Townsend.