Concerns around Emma Raducanu\u2019s health have grown after the star required treatment during her defeat at the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n
In a match full of twists and turns and momentum swings, world No 67 Antonia Ruzic battled from an early break down to defeat world No 25 Raducanu<\/a> 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 in the opening round of the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n World No 25 Raducanu had been handed a late change of opponent in Dubai<\/a>, with Ruzic stepping in as a lucky loser to replace Elisabetta Cocciaretto after the Italian\u2019s withdrawal.<\/p>\n The Brit had spent a week off court since her retirement against Camila Osorio in the opening round of the Qatar Open<\/a>, and Ruzic was, on paper, more of a favourable draw than the in-form Cocciaretto.<\/p>\n Ruzic had lost her last five matches heading into this contest against Raducanu, including an opening-round loss in Dubai to Rebecca Sramkova.<\/p>\n However, the Croatian made light work of Raducanu in the opening set, breaking the out-of-sorts Brit twice on her way to taking the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n The Brit then called for the trainer in between the first and second sets, and was seen taking a tablet given to her during the medical assessment, before the resumption of play.<\/p>\n Raducanu looked in better shape during points of the second set, and rallied from 5-3 down to force a deciding set \u2014 breaking Ruzic as the Croatian served for the match at 5-4 up, before again breaking two games later.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff responds to calls for Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka to be \u2018punished\u2019 after skipping event<\/a><\/p>\n Dubai Championships: Withdrawal list grows with Victoria Mboko the latest to pull out<\/a><\/p>\n Raducanu extended her streak to six games in a row as she moved an early break up in the decider, only for Ruzic herself to win six straight games and storm to victory.<\/p>\n Raducanu had looked in fine form at the Transylvania Open earlier this month, with the star picking up four straight wins on her way to a first final since the 2021 US Open.<\/p>\n However, the world No 25 was beaten soundly by Sorana Cirstea in the final<\/a>, and has now lost three straight matches \u2014 requiring on-court treatment of some sort in all three defeats, and retiring in Doha last week.<\/p>\n Concerns will grow about Raducanu\u2019s health and fitness, though the star will now have a longer period of rest as she looks to get back into strong form.<\/p>\n Raducanu is not set to be in action again until Indian Wells, the third WTA 1000 event of the year.<\/p>\n Action in Tennis Paradise will begin in early March, and will be swiftly followed by the Miami Open \u2014 the second half of the Sunshine Double.<\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>: WTA Rankings: Rybakina poised to overtake Swiatek as Mboko makes top-10 debut, Muchova +8<\/a><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu health concerns grow as star receives medical treatment in Dubai defeat<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Concerns around Emma Raducanu\u2019s health have grown after the star required treatment during her defeat at the Dubai Tennis Championships. In a match full of twists and turns and momentum swings, world No 67 Antonia Ruzic battled from an early break down to defeat world No 25 Raducanu 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 in the opening round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n