Britain’s Emma Raducanu says she is in a “actually match place” as she prepares to begin her grass-court season on the Nottingham Open.
The 21-year-old skipped the French Open to concentrate on her health, having not performed since shedding within the first spherical of the Madrid Open in April.
Raducanu, who had wrist and ankle operations final 12 months, faces Japan’s Ena Shibahara within the Nottingham first spherical on Tuesday.
“Physique-wise, physical-wise, I really feel actually wholesome. I really feel actually sturdy,” stated Raducanu, who performed her first WTA match at Nottingham in 2021 earlier than occurring to win the US Open later that 12 months.
“I’ve performed wonderful work with my coach over the previous couple of months, since surgical procedure. I am in a very match place. I feel my wrists are literally in a greater place than they ever had been.
“So there’s zero doubt or apprehension whether or not I am hitting the ball or designing my schedule. It is extra about being proactive and never wanting to place your self in any pointless conditions.”
Raducanu had surgical procedure on her proper wrist and an ankle in Could final 12 months earlier than an extra operation adopted on her left wrist.
It required her to make use of a mobility scooter to get round, together with her admitting it was troublesome to “shut your physique down”.
“I feel it is very simple for me to lose sight of the place I used to be precisely a 12 months in the past as a result of it’s just about a 12 months in the past to at the present time, this month,” she stated.
“You get so caught up in your individual world that you really want increasingly more and extra. However a 12 months in the past I used to be on a scooter scooting round and I did not know – there was a component of doubt.
“To be wholesome and to be right here, I have to cherish it.”