Raducanu final performed a match in Indian Wells on 8 March, and has since missed the Miami Open and clay-court occasions in Linz and Madrid due to her post-viral signs.
Nevertheless, the 23-year-old has been practising in current weeks on the Nationwide Tennis Centre in London and on the Ferrer Academy close to Benidorm.
She had been accompanied in Rome by Jane O’Donoghue, a good friend and former LTA nationwide coach, and physio Emma Stewart, who maybe tellingly was with Raducanu throughout her interviews.
“Approaching to the clay courts is way more bodily demanding than doubtlessly different surfaces however I need to come again 100% prepared,” Raducanu mentioned.
“I’ve been constructing my method up slowly and looking out ahead to once I get on the market.”
We now know she is not going to be getting on the market in Rome this week.
Raducanu has one final probability to play a WTA occasion earlier than the French Open in both Strasbourg or Rabat in two weeks’ time.
But when she misses all the clay swing, then Raducanu could have been absent for 3 months by the point the grass-court season begins.
Even when Raducanu is match to compete at Roland Garros, which begins on 24 Might, she’s going to achieve this as an unseeded participant.
The 2021 US Open champion is at present 30 on this planet rankings however solely 32 gamers are seeded – and she’s going to drop a number of locations now she is now not capable of defend the factors she earned from a fourth-round run in Rome final yr.
