No British ladies in French Open singles draw after qualifiers crash out
B
ritain has had a minimum of one ladies’s participant within the singles draw of each Grand Slam for the final 14 years however can have no representatives on this 12 months’s French Open.
Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Fran Jones had all been vying for his or her locations in the principle draw at Roland Garros by qualifying.
But the trio had been all knocked out on Wednesday. Boulter narrowly misplaced 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 to American Ashlyn Krueger and there was a 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 loss for Dart to Frenchwoman Elsa Jacquemot.
Jones, in the meantime, left the court docket in tears when 4-1 right down to Coco Vandeweghe due to a shoulder damage that curtailed her progress.
A trio of different Britons – Heather Watson, Katie Swan and Lily Miyazaki – had all beforehand been knocked out earlier within the qualifying rounds.
Emma Raducanu has been ruled out of the summer, together with Wimbledon, following a trio of operations on each her wrists and her ankle.
Britain will likely be represented within the males’s singles draw at Roland Garros by Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans and Jack Draper however Liam Broady missed out in qualifying on Wednesday whereas Andy Murray has opted to forego the French Open to concentrate on his grasscourt season.