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        Emma Raducanu                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\">Emma Raducanu<\/a>\u2019s slide down the tennis rankings was inevitable after she was forced to pull out of the entire North American swing of the WTA Tour, including the final Grand Slam of 2026 at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 champion at Flushing Meadows will not be toasting that notable anniversary of her only career title in New York after the stress fracture in her foot sustained during her run to the final of the WTA 500 event at the Queen\u2019s Club in June.<\/p>\n<p>That injury forced her to pull out of Wimbledon and it was no surprise when she then confirmed she will not be returning to the scene of her greatest triumph later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Now the inevitable rankings slide her enduring absence from the WTA Tour guarantees is underway, with the latest live rankings seeing the 23-year-old sliding down 10 places to No 59.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\">Raducanu\u2019s<\/a> absence from the WTA 1000 tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati will see ranking points drop off her total and she will also see the 130 points she gained rom a run to the third round at last year\u2019s US Open erased from her total.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-avoid-same-mistake-as-jack-draper-after-us-open-withdrawal\">Emma Raducanu has a clear decision she must make after US Open withdrawal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-frustrated-greg-rusedski-us-open-withdrawal\">Greg Rusedski \u2018frustrated\u2019 as he gets honest on Emma Raducanu\u2019s injury nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is likely to see her ranking slide to the mid-80s by the end of the US Open and that could mean she loses the British No 1 ranking to Katie Boulter.<\/p>\n<p>Losing her status as the top player in Britain will be another side-effect of Raducanu\u2019s latest injury and it will test her ambition to kick-start her career once again as she will be in danger of slipping out of the top 100 of the rankings unless she has a strong end to 2026.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of slide would force her to play in lower-ranking events or enter qualifying to play in marquee events and she has shown a reluctance to do that in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports Tennis, former British No 1 Annabel Croft expressed her concerns for Raducanu\u2019s future as she suggested her physical issues could see her miss the rest of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels as if she\u2019s been unbelievably unlucky with the injury problems she\u2019s faced throughout the course of her career. Don\u2019t forget she\u2019s had wrist surgery, feet problems, and now this stress fracture,\u201d said Croft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many injuries out there on the Tour, it seems like she never gets a clear run where she\u2019s able to really go for it with her tennis, and her body, and her mind injury free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust keep the momentum going because we\u2019re all so excited with what she did at Queen\u2019s Club, where she reached the final there just ahead of Wimbledon, where everyone is going \u2018Wow\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe really ignited her tennis again and things were really starting to look up, but this is just a major setback. It\u2019s a tournament that is so special to her, that\u2019s where she\u2019s had her greatest success, a former US Open champion, and I\u2019ve seen lots of pictures of her posting the boot on her leg, trying to serve still, keeping her racket going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShowing everybody that she\u2019s doing everything she can, but clearly it\u2019s not healed up and you need to be fully fit to play these tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if she made that decision [to end her season now] and probably that wouldn\u2019t be such a bad decision to take because you can fully heal, rest up, get as much treatment as possible, and then come out fully fit and raring to go at the start of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the business side of tennis, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot of enticing things coming her way down in Asia where she will want to play her best tennis there and she\u2019ll be very much in demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/cincinnati-open-withdrawal-list-2026-8-players-out-carlos-alcaraz-emma-raducanu\">Cincinnati Open withdrawal list: 8 stars out as Carlos Alcaraz joins Emma Raducanu, Jack Draper next?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu\u2019s rankings slide is underway and it is about to get a lot worse Kevin Palmer 06 Aug 2026 9:30 PM Emma Raducanu Emma Raducanu\u2019s slide down the tennis rankings was inevitable after she was forced to pull out of the entire North American swing of the WTA Tour, including the final Grand Slam [&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-2081287","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\/2081287","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=2081287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}