Raducanu will now get a day off, which should be very useful for a woman who has barely played this season. Even if her movement may have been well short of her fleet-footed best, her match management was extremely mature. And then, when Kovinic found some belated timing after a bathroom break at the end of the first set, she recognised that she needed to push a little harder. While Kovinic was spraying the ball, she simply hung in the rallies without trying anything too ambitious. She can, however, take plenty of encouragement from what was a professional if unspectacular performance on Thursday. Her latest woes come on top of an injury-ravaged 2022 in which she managed to complete 30 matches, while retiring in four more. Raducanu had been due to appear in the Eisenhower Cup exhibition event on Tuesday but pulled out in order to rest her wrists. I played on the weekend and then I rested it – it's how you manage things when you aren't prepared." This and the infection – it's obviously a challenge. “I've probably never felt so sick in my life. "It affected me bad for the short term so I haven't prepared much,” Raducanu’s told the BBC on Wednesday. At the very least, it seems as though the tonsillitis has affected her conditioning – and maybe the infection has left her with some respiratory issues as well.
Here, Raducanu found herself repeatedly coughing into a towel at the changeovers. In Australia, it was the limited movement caused by a sprained ankle. In both cases, however, Raducanu’s apparently straightforward victory was made more creditable by the fact that she had come in under a cloud. Kovinic thus made for a disappointing opponent – just as Raducanu’s most recent victim Tamara Korpatsch had done in the first round of January’s Australian Open. More than half of the points that Raducanu won were contributed by her opponent’s hefty tally of 32 unforced errors – which worked out to around two per game.
Early on in the match, the wind was so strong and inconsistent that it made the ball dance around in the air, and it completely ruined Kovinic’s rhythm.ĭespite going up 2-0 in both sets, Kovinic never really seemed to be in control of her shots. Raducanu’s 6-2, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic – the world No 62 from Montenegro – depended on her superior consistency on what was a gusty day in the Californian desert. Although she showed little sign of the wrist trouble that had flared up in recent days, she was breathing heavily throughout, and seemed to be struggling with the aftermath of her recent bout of tonsillitis. Emma Raducanu overcomes wrist and breathing issues to advance at Indian WellsĪ wrist injury and tonsillitis affected the 2021 US Open champion in the build-up, but her opponent did not put up much of a fightĮmma Raducanu shrugged off a disrupted build-up to Indian Wells to score a straight-sets win in just 81 minutes.
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