Emma Raducanu may get Wimbledon BBC job as Roger Federer guidelines himself out
Emma Raducanu has been linked with a broadcasting function for the BBC at Wimbledon this summer time. The former US Open champion is about miss the Championships and the French Open this yr after present process three operations to unravel long-term health points.
Raducanu has had surgical procedure on each her wrists and her ankle, ruling her out of each summer time Grand Slams. She faces a race to be match for the US Open later this yr, two years after she sensationally gained the match as a qualifier.
The 20-year-old’s procedures should not set to maintain her out of the studios, although, with an obvious broadcasting function doubtlessly lined up. Reports counsel that Raducanu may work for the BBC through the match.
It is unclear what function the British sensation may undertake, or how often she’s going to seem. However, followers can be eager for an replace on her health and a wider viewers may hearken to her mirror on a whirlwind two years since she first rose to fame on the 2021 version of the Championships.
The Daily Mail claims viewers may even see Raducanu make a ‘cameo’ on the BBC on the All England Club in July. It comes after Roger Federer dominated himself out of commentary duties for this yr, insisting he wouldn’t be collaborating within the broadcast protection of the match.
Federer is about to be formally honoured at Wimbledon this yr having retired on the finish of 2022. Responding to a fan on Twitter, the Swiss tennis icon tweeted: “No plans to commentate this year!”
Meanwhile, Raducanu appears set to overlook many of the season after present process her procedures. Speaking exclusively to Express Sport earlier this month, mentor Tim Henman revealed that the surgical procedure is principally an try and ‘manage’ the ache the Bromley-based starlet was experiencing.
Henman mentioned: “I’ve spoken to her a lot about it and I think the message that she was getting from the surgeons was that she won’t make it worse, she won’t do more damage but it was about trying to manage the pain.
“But then I think it was definitely restricting how much practice she could do so then she’s not able to really make the improvements on the court. So I think that really added to her frustration because she wasn’t able to do herself justice.”
However, former Wimbledon champion and ex-BBC pundit Boris Becker believes the operations are doubtlessly ‘career-threatening’. Becker warned Raducanu that going beneath the knife could possibly be ‘tough to bear’.
He informed the Guardian: “The surgeries that she has had are, in my opinion, career-threatening. Having surgery on your playing wrist, and as a two-handed player, the other wrist – and then on your ankle – is tough to bear for a young woman.”