Emma Raducanu has insisted that she will not be withdrawing from Wimbledon despite being plagued by a back injury.
She has had the issue for several weeks and it flared up once again in yesterday’s Eastbourne defeat to teenager Maya Joint.
But the Brit has no plans to pull out of SW19.
“No, I think I will step on the court regardless,” she said after being asked about the possibility of withdrawing.
“I’ve just been managing it. Normal fatigue after playing a long match, but, yeah, hopefully I can recover. I still have a few days before Wimbledon so I’m looking forward to kind of recovering, and hopefully it settles.
“I would say it bothers me. I wouldn’t say it’s like I can’t move. Like a lot of athletes, we all carry kind of something that we’re managing and playing through, but I’d just say that it’s, it’s okay, I can play, and I can still put out some, you know, pretty decent tennis in the situation.”