Emma Raducanu fires warning to top rivals and opens up on ‘volatility’

Emma Raducanu is ready to ‘do some damage’ in 2025 after being stifled by injuries for a second consecutive season. The Brit has been absent for almost two months since suffering a foot ligament issue at the Korea Open.

In September, Raducanu revealed that she planned to close out the year with a flurry of activity in Asia, a continent which ‘feels like home’. But the 21-year-old’s latest niggle forced her to pull out of WTA 1000 events in Beijing and Wuhan.

This week’s tournament in Ningbo has also come too soon, while Raducanu plans to sit out the Guangzhou Open before rounding off her campaign with trips to Hong Kong and the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Spain.

It has been a frustrating season for Raducanu, despite her climbing from outside the world’s top 300 to inside the top 60. And she has warned her rivals that next year will be the year she makes a splash in major tournaments, as she did at the US Open in 2021.

“I’m prepared to work hard and do some damage next year,” she told Women’s Health magazine. “There has been a lot of volatility over the past three years. And I think the most I’ve come into myself has been in the last few weeks.”