US Open champion has recently come out of Covid-19 isolation‘The first Melbourne event this week is too soon for me’The
US Open champion Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from this week’s
Australian Open warm-up tournament in Melbourne having just come out of isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. Raducanu, who became the first qualifier to win a grand slam when she triumphed at Flushing Meadows in September, had pulled out of the Mubadala World
Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi last month after contracting the virus.
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The 19-year-old was scheduled to headline one of the two women’s WTA 250 warmup tournaments taking place at Melbourne Park – dubbed the “Melbourne Summer Set” – from 4-9 January.