- Emma Raducanu is currently supporting the worst series of results in her career.
- The British was recently knocked out in the first round both in Abu Dhabi and Doha
- Raducanu faces the possibility of another hard draw in the tournament
Emma Raducanu will try to finish her walk without victories through the deserts of the Middle East in Dubai next week, after carrying another wild card in a blue chip event.
The 22 -year -old has lost her last four games and will wait for a friendly raffle in an event that is at the level below the Grand Slams in terms of prestige.
He lost to IgA Swiatek at the Australian Open, Cristina search in Singapore (she should have won that), the former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in Abu Dhabi and in Doha was defeated by Ekaterina Alexandrova, who went on to make the semifinals today .
It is the worst streak of Raducanu's career, but those were some difficult opponents. The conventional tennis wisdom would be for her to fall into a lower level or level event, get some victories to her credit and return to the upper table with some confidence.
But Raducanu is rarely conventional and clearly prefers to return to the form to the highest level: of the last 18 events he has played, 13 have been a wild card.
It is an option that would not be available for most players, who are restricted to six wild cards per year. But as former Grand Slam champion, Raducanu can take as many as he likes.
Emma Raducanu has taken another wild card in Dubai's free tennis championships
Raducanu is supporting its worst sequence of results having lost four successive games
She sits in No60 in the world and, given the classification points available at the WTA 1000 level, a couple of victories in the EAU would get that number shooting north.
But with nine of the Top 10 it is expected to be aligned on the network, she is at the mercy of the draw once again.
In Dubai last year, Anna Kalinskaya showed the benefit of developing impulse through the qualification, reaching the final, and has always been peculiar that the most successful and famous qualifier of all time: Raducanu has won the way in the 2021 US Open then won everything, it seems so reluctant to step on that path again.
To be fair, she had to play the qualification in Doha last week, but few retreats meant that a wildcard was opened. And it is certainly difficult to reject the tennis equivalent of a golden ticket when available.
Raducanu remains without a coach after Nick Cavaday resigned for health reasons.
While the search continues, her old friend and coach Jane O'Donoghue is joined, who is taking longer of her daily work with the Royal Bank of Canada. As we said: things are rarely conventional when it comes to Raducanu.