{"id":2052745,"date":"2026-07-20T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2052745"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:30:07","slug":"emma-raducanus-rankings-rise-may-be-a-shock-but-the-fall-may-be-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2052745","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu&#8217;s rankings rise may be a shock &#8211; but the fall may be just around the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Emma Raducanu\u2019s rankings rise may be a shock \u2013 but the fall may be just around the corner<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a 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class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> has received a welcome boost after she made a small leap forward in the latest WTA Rankings, but the alarm bells may soon be ringing for the British No 1.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu has not hit a ball in competitive matchplay since she reached the final of the WTA 500 event at the Queen\u2019s Club in June, with her impressive performances suggesting a troubled 2026 may be about to take a turn for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the three matches she played in two days at Queen\u2019s proved to be too much for her body, with a stress fracture of her foot ending her hopes of playing at Wimbledon and casting doubt over when she will return.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\">Raducanu<\/a> is up one place to No 37 in this week\u2019s WTA Rankings, with that rise a welcome boost as she may still be a long way from playing again.<\/p>\n<p>Yet after pulling out of next month\u2019s Canadian Open and the WTA 1000 event at Cincinnati that follows later in the month, her ranking is set to slide rapidly.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-lifestyle-change-advice-greg-rusedski\">Emma Raducanu told she may need to change her lifestyle to sustain a career in tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-ranking-nightmare-after-withdrawal\">Emma Raducanu faces ranking nightmare after withdrawing from two upcoming events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a widespread expectation that Raducanu may also be forced to miss the US Open and if she did pull out of the final Grand Slam of the year, her ranking may slide outside of the top 50 in the WTA Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>If Raducanu does not return until the back end of the season, the player who has won just 11 matches in 2026 could face a fight to keep her ranking intact, with former British No 1 Greg Rusedski arguing \u2018health is your wealth\u2019 as he urged his fellow Brit to solve her fitness issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to be in the team to really know what the issue is,\u201d said Rusedski on his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt depends on how you\u2019re training, how you\u2019re loading, what\u2019s happening. I don\u2019t have enough information, but all I know is we have a lot of talented players in Britain and we need to find a way to keep them healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, consistency of team helps, consistency of training. You can\u2019t take long periods of time off. Even when you\u2019re on holiday, you still need to hit balls. You still need to go to the gym. You need to keep it going because stop starting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember when Roger Federer was at the peak of his powers and he was still hitting tennis balls when he went on holiday with his family. That\u2019s what you need to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a recreational player now, but if I stop for a few weeks and then I got a seniors event or something, I\u2019m sore. I\u2019m stiff. I don\u2019t bounce back as quickly. So it\u2019s easier for me if I\u2019m just training consistently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need the same approach as the pros. And you have to get that sort of impact and volume. And for Emma at Queen\u2019s, the problem was she\u2019s played so many back-to-back matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she wasn\u2019t trained for her body to be able to do that. You can say it\u2019s bad luck, but you have to be prepared sometimes to play two matches in a day and maybe back-to-back two matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wish her well. I want to see her healthy. I want to see all our Brits healthy and going in the right direction. But you\u2019ve got to have a look at the sports science behind it as well because something is not right when we have this many of them injured all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/kyle-edmund-exclusive-interview-tennis-injuries-alcaraz-djokovic-raducanu-complaints\">Kyle Edmund speaks out about injuries after Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Emma Raducanu complained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu\u2019s rankings rise may be a shock \u2013 but the fall may be just around the corner Kevin Palmer 20 Jul 2026 7:30 PM Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon Emma Raducanu has received a welcome boost after she made a small leap forward in the latest WTA Rankings, but the alarm bells may soon be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2052745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}