Laura Robson makes Emma Raducanu prediction ahead of French Open and Wimbledon

Laura Robson has predicted that Emma Raducanu volition play some the French Open and Wimbledon this twelvemonth successful a docket alteration from 2024.

Raducanu dramatically withdrew from past year’s French Open, conscionable 24 hours earlier qualifying got underway astatine the Grand Slam tournament.

The British tennis prima – who was not injured – skipped Roland-Garros to bid and springiness herself a ‘chance to support acceptable for the remainder of the year’ aft she didn’t summation nonstop entry, owed to her ranking, and was not handed a wildcard.

Her determination to sacrifice clip connected clay for the grass-court plaything paid off, with awesome performances successful Nottingham and Eastbourne, reaching a semi-final and quarter-final earlier a brilliant tally to the Wimbledon past 16.

Former British No.1 Robson, though, is adamant that Raducanu volition look to diagnostic astatine some the French Open and Wimbledon this clip around.

‘I deliberation she’d similar to bash both,’ Robson told Metro. ‘Clay is large for processing each areas of your game. [Especially] for tactical things and learning however to crook astir matches successful slower conditions.

‘Ideally you privation the champion of some worlds, playing good connected clay and past grass. We’ll spot what she decides – but I’m definite she wants to play a afloat schedule.’

Raducanu, who won the US Open arsenic a qualifier 4 years ago, has lone played astatine 1 French Open to date, reaching the 2nd circular successful 2022.

Meanwhile, Robson feels British No.1 Katie Boulter could truly radiance astatine Roland-Garros aft making clay her fig 1 precedence for the season.

Asked astir British players who could perchance execute supra expectations astatine the French Open, which begins successful precocious May, Robson said: ‘Well, I cognize Katie Boulter’s 1 large extremity for the twelvemonth is to bash good connected clay.

‘She’s not utilized it arsenic a precedence successful the past. She’s played a mates matches but not truly enactment successful the enactment connected the signifier courts to truly bash well.

‘But she’s reasoning astir it already and making definite she’s going to beryllium successful the headspace to taking connected the situation of playing connected clay.

‘I ever deliberation clay changes truthful overmuch depending connected the upwind and it depends what week you’re in. Madrid plays wholly antithetic to Rome, truthful there’s decidedly weeks wherever I’d springiness the Brits much of a accidental and Roland-Garros could beryllium 1 of them.’

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