Emma Raducanu shared a light-hearted replace from her hospital mattress on Friday as she underwent her second of three surgical procedures. Earlier this week, the 20-year-old announced that she would be missing several months of tennis to have procedures on each fingers and her left ankle, ruling her out of Wimbledon and the French Open. But she was in good spirits as she left followers laughing with an Instagram Live video recent after her left ankle surgical procedure.

Raducanu rocked the tennis world when she introduced that she can be having three surgical procedures over the approaching weeks after battling with an harm on each wrists for the final 10 months. The world No 85 introduced the news after her first hand process on Wednesday.

And she has already gone beneath the knife for the second time as her left ankle op was accomplished on Friday morning. The US Open champion let her followers know that "two of three [were] completed" in an impromptu Instagram dwell stream from her hospital mattress and laughed as she struggled to seek out her phrases after the surgical procedure.

"I'm munching on Pom Bears and Lotus Biscoff and an apple for balance," she mentioned, sharing her stash of snacks earlier than laughing and stumbling over her phrases. Raducanu continued: "But I was so hungry because I couldn't do any, I couldn't eat and then after the surgery now I can eat but I'm not hungry. I feel like I'm making no sense here."

The former world No 10 was nonetheless glad she might lastly eat after the process, including: "So good to eat but I just had my ankle done. So two out of three done and one to go but not for like two weeks' time."

Raducanu additionally thanked her followers for his or her help after asserting the news of her triple surgical procedure on Wednesday. "I just wanted to say thank you for your support and your messages, and I'm sure I'll see you around soon," she mentioned, laughing as she waved.

It comes days after she took to Instagram to publish a photograph of herself in a hospital mattress after her first surgical procedure, accompanied by a handwritten observe providing an replace on the following few months. "It is safe to say the last 10 months have been difficult as I dealt with a recurring injury on a bone of both hands. I tried my best to manage the pain and play through it for most of this year and end of last year by reducing practice load dramatically, missing weeks of training as well as cutting last season short to try heal it, unfortunately it's not enough," she wrote.