“Right now, I’m fit. I’m ready to go. I’m looking forward to it – that’s it. We were sort of going to see how the week goes, but it went pretty well ,”Emma Raducanu said.
“Ready to go.” Which, in England’s tennis star Emma Raducanu’s world, means a readiness to take centre stage.
The teenager will make her first Centre Court appearance on Monday – with Novak Djokovic as her warm-up act and Andy Murray to follow her on to the grass – after her confirmation that she is fit to play this summer’s Championships.
Earlier in the week, there had been a degree of uncertainty, and no little discussion around Wimbledon, about whether the US Open champion would compete because of a side strain injury that has interfered with her preparations.
England’s tennis star Emma Raducanu will make her first Centre Court appearance on monday against Van Uytvanck, who has won a couple of tournaments on grass this season, in Surbiton in south-west London and Gaiba in Italy, and who also reached the quarter finals in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.Four years ago, Van Uytvanck defeated Muguruza on the way to the fourth round, her best result at the All England Club.
Raducanu considers Van Uytvanck to be a “tricky” opponent, with a game that is well suited to grass. But only one of them is a Grand Slam champion.
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