Emma Raducanu suffered a major injury scare just days out from the French Open after taking a medical timeout in her three-set loss to Danielle Collins at the Strasbourg International.<\/p>\n
In a pulsating contest, world No 46 Collins<\/a> rallied from a set down to beat Raducanu<\/a> 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 at the WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n It is just a second quarter-final of 2025 for the American, who has struggled at times across 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew playing Emma that I would have to play my aggressive game style,\u201d said Collins on court.<\/p>\n \u201cThe more that I did that, I think that I was able to kind of stay in control of the points and really push her. She played really and gave me some challenges \u2013 but I just kept going after it.\u201d<\/p>\n Things started brightly for world No 43 Raducanu, who produced some superb tennis on her way to winning an impressive opening set.<\/p>\n However, while Collins improved notably after a shaky start, the Brit\u2019s form faded badly and she ultimately called for the trainer.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu makes major change to grass-court schedule<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s \u2018priorities in right place\u2019 as former world No 1 reveals what she needs to add to her game<\/a><\/p>\n Raducanu took an off-court medical time out for a back injury at 5-0 down in set two, though returned to court and managed to hold before Collins forced a decider.<\/p>\n The pair traded early breaks across a tense deciding set, though the US star ultimately broke in Raducanu\u2019s final two service games to triumph.<\/p>\n Raducanu struggled with a back injury at the start of 2025, withdrawing from the Auckland Open ahead of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old will hope that the problem is nothing too serious ahead of the second Grand Slam of the year at the French Open, which begins this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n Raducanu has not played at Roland Garros since 2022, withdrawing due to injury in 2023 and due to scheduling concerns in 2024.<\/p>\n Defeat for the Brit also means she has missed the chance to potentially return to the top 40 of the WTA Rankings post-event.<\/p>\n Raducanu is currently ranked 43rd in the world but is up to world No 41 in the WTA Live Rankings, following her opening-round win over Daria Kasatkina.<\/p>\n Victory against Collins would not have seen the 22-year-old rise any further up the rankings but, had she won, she would have then been just one victory away from a top-40 return.<\/p>\n However, while there was disappointment for the Brit, Collins now has the chance to avoid a significant drop.<\/p>\n A challenging season for Collins has seen the 31-year-old fall down to world No 46 in the WTA Rankings, having failed to defending her Miami Open and Charleston Open titles earlier this spring.<\/p>\n Having started 2025 as the world No 11, Collins was potentially set to fall outside of the top 60 in Strasbourg, with finalist points to defend at the tournament.<\/p>\n The American is currently projected to fall 13 spots to world No 59 ahead of her quarter-final at the tournament.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0French Open: 5 unseeded stars to watch out for in women\u2019s singles draw<\/a><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu suffers injury scare as she misses rankings chance with Strasbourg exit<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu suffered a major injury scare just days out from the French Open after taking a medical timeout in her three-set loss to Danielle Collins at the Strasbourg International. In a pulsating contest, world No 46 Collins rallied from a set down to beat Raducanu 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 at the WTA 500 event. It […]<\/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-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h2>\n