Tennis star Emma Raducanu has revealed that she feels ‘better than ever’ forward of her return to the court docket in 2024. The 21-year-old is about to characteristic within the Auckland Classic, the match the place she final featured earlier than deciding to endure a spell on the sidelines to handle her recurring harm issues.

Raducanu was final seen on the court docket in tears in Auckland after rolling her ankle in a second-round match. Following the harm, it was quickly dominated that the 2021 US Open winner would bear surgical procedure on each of her wrists and an ankle, and her highway to restoration is edging ever nearer.

She will quickly compete in a qualifier earlier than dealing with off towards both Caroline Wozniacki or Elina Svitolina. After such an prolonged spell away from tennis, Raducanu will likely be hoping to make an influence upon her return.

Speaking forward of her conflict, she informed Sky Sports: “Physically, in apply over the previous few weeks, I'm hitting the ball rather well. I believe I'm a greater tennis participant than I used to be earlier than the break. The individuals across the LTA, for instance, everybody can see that I'm coaching and taking part in actually, rather well.

"And physically, I'm pushing weights, pushing things that I wasn't doing before. In my body, I actually have confidence in it, which is really nice and tennis-wise I feel good too.

"It's nearly now placing it right into a match, which is clearly utterly totally different to apply. I do know that can are available in time although - so long as the extent is there and bettering."

Raducanu then admitted that her spell away from the sport was a truly gruelling battle due to how she was somewhat immobile, explaining: “It was hard, especially in the first few months. When you're so used to being active and moving around all the time, then to all of a sudden have everything just cut off from you.

"I had like two wrists and one foot [injured] so I could not even use crutches. I mainly had like a scooter form of factor and you'll push your self round with one leg. It was actually troublesome. I could not actually go anyplace. I could not go to the grocery store; think about being that motionless. I believe it undoubtedly reignited the hearth to get again on the market competing and made me recognize simply being wholesome." It stays to be seen whether or not Raducanu is ready to hit the heights of 2021 upon her return, having slipped to world No. 298 throughout her absence.