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Emma Raducanu on her return: “For sure gives me a lot of confidence and looking forward to in time with more matches, more practice, more gym sessions, seeing where I can go from there. I’m looking forward to this season, it’s just the beginning. It’s week one – a lot more to come.”
Emma Raducanu will play at the Kooyong Classic exhibition event ahead of the start of the Australian Open on Sunday January 16.
Having been out for nine months due to surgeries on both wrists and to her left ankle, Raducanu made her return this month at the Auckland Classic.
After marking her return with victory against Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Raducanu was denied a quarter-final place by second seed Elina Svitolina.
Raducanu won the opening set, producing the sort of stunning form she showed on her way to winning the US Open as a qualifier in 2021, but could not close out the match in a second-set tiebreak, before Svitolina’s superior conditioning told in a one-sided decider
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The 21-year-old says her comeback performances after a long injury layoff have given her “a lot of confidence” and that there is “a lot more to come” as she prepares for the Australian Open.
“I think I can take away that my level was pretty high for two sets, two long sets which lasted like two hours and 15 minutes,” said Raducanu, who will also play a charity match against Naomi Osaka on Tuesday on the Rod Laver Arena.
“I’m pretty proud of how quickly I was able to get my level up to be able to compete with Elina