Emma Raducanu has secured automatic entry into the Indian Wells WTA 1000 tournament and that could be crucial to her rankings ambitions for the rest of this year.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a> reached the third round in Indian Wells last year and will be defending 65 points when she returns to the desert to play on her favoured hard courts next month.<\/p>\n She will then have a big chance to build on her ranking when she plays at the Miami Open later in March, which is another WTA 1000 tournament that offers huge ranking points.<\/p>\n Once again, she was relying on a wild card to gain entry into the Miami Open last year and was forced to pull out due to injury without hitting a ball in Florida, but she should gain direct entry this year.<\/p>\n While Raducanu\u2019s form in 2025 has been indifferent after four successive losses prior to her solitary win against Greece\u2019s Maria Sakkari i<\/span>n last week\u2019s Dubai tournament, the 2021 US Open champion will be eager to find some winning consistency over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n She is currently ranked at No 54 in the live rankings and would only need to win two or three matches in Indian Wells and Miami to secure a return to the top 50.<\/p>\n Raducanu\u2019s ranking did not secure her entry into last year\u2019s French Open, but there is a chance she could be seeded for the second Grand Slam tournament of 2025 if she has strong performances in Indian Wells and Miami, before she is set to play at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in mid-April.<\/p>\n The bulk of the ranking points Raduacanu needs to defend in the coming months will be up for grabs in the grass court season, after she enjoyed strong performances in WTA Tour events in Nottingham and Eastbourne last year, before reaching the last-16 at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n The Brit had a relatively light tournament schedule in the second half of 2024 so that will again offer up opportunities for rankings leaps if she can stay fit and use her improved ranking to play in more events.<\/p>\n So while Raducanu has faced some criticism for her inconsistent performances in recent weeks, the picture could look a lot brighter for the 22-year-old heading into the French Open.<\/p>\n In the opinion of former British No 1 Tim Henman, Raducanu could be back in the top 30 of the WTA Rankings if she stays fit, as he suggests her best form is good enough to compete with the game\u2019s top players.<\/p>\n \u201cIf she can stay healthy and competes a lot, the results will come because she\u2019s that good,\u201d said Sky Sports Tennis analyst Henman.<\/p>\n \u201cIf she wasn\u2019t good enough, you\u2019d say she has to pick her tournaments and play some weaker events. With Emma, if she stays healthy, I\u2019m convinced the results will follow.<\/p>\n \u201cI never thought it was about her level. When she has played, her level has always been very good, but if you look at the breakdown of her ranking last year, I think she played 33 matches and 11 of them were on grass.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you look at the other 10 months of the year, to have only played 22 matches is so few. She is aware of that, I\u2019m sure, and she will get a coach at the right moment, but for me, the physical work she is doing is most significant.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always been a big, big advocate of playing matches. I always played a lot of matches.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the challenge for Raducanu is around physical resilience.<\/p>\n \u201cYou talk about Katie Boulter and all the improvements that she made. Yes, she has got better as a tennis player, her movement has improved, but it\u2019s also the resilience to be able to play that full schedule.<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw Katie at the end of the year playing four or five tournaments in a row. She made a final in Hong Kong, at the last event of the year and finished in the top 25.<\/p>\n \u201cRaducanu has had a decent year going from sort of 300 into the top 60 but, when you look at the amount of tennis she\u2019s played, she hasn\u2019t played a great deal. If she builds up that resilience, every time she steps on the court, she was playing good tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cTherefore, top 50, top 30 in 2025, I think is completely realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu: \u2018Terrifying\u2019 stalker hugged the Brit and followed her to four countries<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s ranking, prize money, sponsors and her next tournament<\/a><\/p>\n Raducanu will be keen to get back on court after a disturbing incident marred her exit in Dubai last week, as a man displaying \u201cfixated behaviour\u201d confronted her before her second-round defeat to Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n The individual reportedly handed Raducanu a letter the day before her match with Muchova before he was then spotted in the crowd during her match.<\/p>\n A statement from the Women\u2019s Tennis Association revealed that Raducanu had been approached in a public area by a man the day before she faced Muchova.<\/p>\n \u201cOn Monday, February 17, Emma Raducanu was approached in a public area by a man who exhibited fixated behaviour,\u201d a WTA statement read.<\/p>\n \u201cThis same individual was identified in the first few rows during Emma\u2019s match on Tuesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and subsequently ejected. He will be banned from all WTA events pending a threat assessment.<\/p>\n \u201cPlayer safety is our top priority, and tournaments are advised on security best practices for international sporting events.<\/p>\n \u201cThe WTA is actively working with Emma and her team to ensure her well-being and provide any necessary support.<\/p>\n \u201cWe remain committed to collaborating with tournaments and their security teams worldwide to maintain a safe environment for all players.\u201d<\/p>\n 1. Aryna Sabalenka READ NEXT: <\/strong>Emma Raducanu can expect \u2018gifts\u2019 as she signs up for new Queen\u2019s Club tournament<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu \u2018could be seeded\u2019 for French Open after huge boost<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu has secured automatic entry into the Indian Wells WTA 1000 tournament and that could be crucial to her rankings ambitions for the rest of this year. Raducanu reached the third round in Indian Wells last year and will be defending 65 points when she returns to the desert to play on her favoured […]<\/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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h3>\n
Indian Wells 2025 WTA Singles Entry List and Projected Seeds (based on WTA Rankings as of 24 February 2025)<\/h4>\n
\n2. Iga Swiatek
\n3. Coco Gauff
\n4. Jessica Pegula
\n5. Madison Keys
\n6. Jasmine Paolini
\n7. Elena Rybakina
\n8. Qinwen Zheng
\n9. Mirra Andreeva
\n10. Emma Navarro
\n11.\u00a0Paula Badosa
\n12.\u00a0Daria Kasatkina
\n13. Diana Shnaider
\n14.\u00a0Danielle Collins
\n15.\u00a0Karolina Muchova
\n16.\u00a0Barbora Krejcikova
\n17.\u00a0Beatriz Haddad Maia
\n18. Amanda Anisimova
\n19.\u00a0Marta Kostyuk
\n20.\u00a0Donna Vekic
\n21.\u00a0Ekaterina Alexandrova
\n22.\u00a0Yulia Putintseva
\n23.\u00a0Clara Tauson
\n24.\u00a0Elina Svitolina
\n25.\u00a0Liudmila Samsonova
\n26.\u00a0Katie Boulter
\n27.\u00a0Jelena Ostapenko
\n28.\u00a0Leylah Fernandez
\n29.\u00a0Elise Mertens
\n30.\u00a0Maria Sakkari
\n31.\u00a0Magdalena Frech
\n32.\u00a0Linda Noskova
\nOns Jabeur
\nAnna Kalinskaya
\nAnastasia Potapova
\nVictoria Azarenka
\nMarketa Vondrousova
\nMagda Linette
\nXinyu Wang
\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
\nOlga Danilovic
\nNaomi Osaka
\nMarie Bouzkova
\nRebecca Sramkova
\nLulu Sun
\nPeyton Stearns
\nKarolina Pliskova
\nElina Avanesyan
\nAnhelina Kalinina
\nDayana Yastremska
\nAshlyn Krueger
\nVeronika Kudermetova
\nCamila Osorio
\nKaterina Siniakova
\nYue Yuan
\nEmma Raducanu
\nMcCartney Kessler
\nJessica Bouzas Maneiro
\nPolina Kudermetova
\nElisabetta Cocciaretto
\nAnn Li
\nMoyuka Uchijima
\nViktoriya Tomova
\nSorana Cirstea
\nMayar Sherif
\nRenata Zarazua
\nSuzan Lamens
\nKatie Volynets
\nKamilla Rakhimova
\nVarvara Gracheva
\nAnna Blinkova
\nLucia Bronzetti
\nJaqueline Cristian
\nPetra Kvitova (WC)
\nIrina Begu (PR)
\nLauren Davis (PR)
\nCaty McNally (PR)<\/p>\n