The total number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Italian Open has risen to 17, with Emma Raducanu one of the two latest seeded stars to join the list.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper and Marketa Voundrousova were among the big names to pull out before the draws were made on Monday.<\/p>\n
WTA world No 15 Marta Kostyuk, who won the Madrid Open last week, withdrew on Tuesday due to a hip issue.<\/p>\n
Raducanu pulled out citing a post-viral illness shortly after attending her press conference on Tuesday evening.<\/a> The 2021 US Open champion, who is currently ranked 30th, has not played a match since Indian Wells in March.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Arthur Rinderknech, the ATP world No 24, became the third highest-ranked man to withdraw.<\/p>\n Main draw WTA play at the Foro Italico got underway on Tuesday, while the men\u2019s tournament began today. The women\u2019s singles final will be played on Saturday 16 May before the men\u2019s singles final on Sunday 17 May.<\/p>\n Is Novak Djokovic winning a 25th Grand Slam a \u2018fantasy\u2019? ATP rival sends strong message<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alex Eala +4 in WTA Rankings after earning battling Italian Open win<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nine of the 11 men to withdraw from Rome pulled out before the draw was made.<\/p>\n Both Rinderknech and Gabriel Diallo have been replaced by lucky losers (players who lost in qualifying) as they were already in the draw when they withdrew.<\/p>\n Kostyuk and Raducanu, who were both seeded, have had their places in the draw taken by lucky losers Ajla Tomljanovic and Lilli Tagger.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek & Emma Raducanu react to Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s Grand Slam boycott comments<\/a> The post Italian Open withdrawals: 17 players out as Emma Raducanu among latest seeded stars to pull out<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The total number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Italian Open has risen to 17, with Emma Raducanu one of the two latest seeded stars to join the list. Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper and Marketa Voundrousova were among the big names to pull out before the draws were made on Monday. WTA […]<\/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-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n
ATP Italian Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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WTA Italian Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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