{"id":12698,"date":"2025-04-03T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-great-britain-squad-before-billie-jean-king-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:39:57","slug":"emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-great-britain-squad-before-billie-jean-king-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emma-raducanu-withdraws-from-great-britain-squad-before-billie-jean-king-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu withdraws from Great Britain squad before Billie Jean King Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu has been hampered by a series of fitness issues over recent seasons, while she recently took time off after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cp3yk4w4z37o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">being targeted by a stalker<\/a> at the Dubai Tennis Championships in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2021 US Open champion plans to do a training block over the next two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has pulled out of the Rouen Open, which starts on 14 April, and it is unclear when she will return to match action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain face the Netherlands and Germany in a new BJK Cup round-robin format between 10-12 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu was part of the British squad that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cgr0pwl417vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">reached the semi-finals<\/a> of last year&#8217;s BJK Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her withdrawal means British captain Anne Keothavong is assessing her options, but likely to call up another player next week to join Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Harriet Dart and Olivia Nicholls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Of course you always miss a player of her quality on the team. But I have the utmost belief in the players who are travelling,&#8221; said Keothavong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leading nation from the qualifying ties in The Hague will seal a place in the Finals later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other two teams will go into the play-offs for the chance to return to the qualifiers in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Wednesday, world number two Iga Swiatek pulled out of Poland&#8217;s qualifying ties against Switzerland and Ukraine, saying it was a &#8220;difficult decision&#8221; and she would instead be &#8220;focusing on myself and my training&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cj45v29j92jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raducanu has been hampered by a series of fitness issues over recent seasons, while she recently took time off after being targeted by a stalker at the Dubai Tennis Championships in February. The 2021 US Open champion plans to do a training block over the next two to three weeks. She has pulled out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}