Overview
- After reaching the Transylvania Open final in Cluj, Raducanu rose five places to No. 25, her highest ranking since September 2022.
- She retired in the third set of her Qatar Open opener against Camila Osorio after feeling unwell, with her blood pressure checked on court.
- No substantive medical update has been issued, and she remains entered for next week’s Dubai Tennis Championships.
- Mark Petchey, a former coach, urged a baseline-first, redirect-heavy style and said he would have withdrawn her from Qatar to recover.
- Boris Becker’s critical post on X drew rebukes from Tennis Podcast hosts, while Steve Johnson and John Isner called her two tour-level finals an unusual career arc.