mma Raducanu has suffered a latest injury setback with a wrist problem leading to her withdrawal from next week’s Transylvania Open.
The injury may also bring a premature end to her first full season on the WTA Tour with the issue meaning she will also miss her only other scheduled event in Guadalajara the following week.
She could yet make one final appearance of the season at the Bille Jean King next month with British captain Anne Keothavong set to name her team next week.
But Raducanu, who has been curtailed with all manner of injury problems this season, could instead decide to pull the plug entirely on the season in a bid to focus on winter training and regaining full fitness for next season.
The 19-year-old looked to have made a breakthrough in a difficult season when she reached the semi-finals of the Korea Open against former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko. It was her first semi-final since last year’s US Open.
But she pulled out of that last-four encounter in Seoul injured in the third set and then lost in the first round of the subsequent Ostrava Open to Daria Kasatkina on Tuesday.
