British No 1 Emma Raducanu pulls out of WTA event in Monterrey next week due to injury

Emma Raducanu’s injury to her left leg has seen her withdraw from next week’s event in Monterrey, Mexico.

The British No 1 retired from her first round match in Guadalajara on Tuesday and is now unsure if she will play next month’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.

‘I was loving Mexico, however due to the small left leg injury sustained during my last match we decided it was best to postpone my return to recover as well as possible,’ she said.

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British No 1 Emma Raducanu has withdraw from next week’s event in Monterrey, Mexico

At the Dubai Duty Free Championships, Russia’s world No 7 Andrey Rublev shut out distractions to beat Hubert Hurkacz of Poland. 

After a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 semi-final win, he used the traditional practice of scrawling on the courtside TV lens to write: ‘No war please.’

Rublev now faces Novak Djokovic’s conqueror Jiri Vesely, who beat Canada’s Denis Shapovalov 6-7, 7-6, 7-6. 

Raducanu was forced to retire in the first round of the Guadalajara Open due to a leg injury