Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of the Miami Open as she continues her recovery from illness, the WTA said on Monday.
British number one Raducanu, who enjoyed a run to the quarter-finals in Florida last year, had been given a bye into the second round.
The 23-year-old has struggled with form and fitness issues since her only Grand Slam triumph as a teenager at New York in 2021 and has worked with a string of different coaches with little success.
The Miami Open main draw begins on Tuesday and runs until March 29th.
Emma Raducanu and Alex Eala are among the WTA players who are set to begin their 2026 clay-court season at the tournament in Linz next month.
The Upper Austria Ladies Linz is a WTA 500 event that was previously held on indoor hard courts, and it has switched to indoor clay for this year’s edition.
The first edition of the new clay-court tournament — and 35th overall edition of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz — will be held from 6 to 12 April at the Design Centre Linz.
The main draw will feature 28 players, a total made up of 19 direct entrants, six qualifiers and three wildcards. The wildcards have been confirmed, and they are all Austrian players: Julia Grabher, Sinja Kraus and Lilli Tagger.
The eight players projected to be seeded based on their current ranking positions are: Ekaterina Alexandrova, Clara Tauson, Liudmila Samsonova, Emma Raducanu, Jelena Ostapenko, Emma Navarro, Alex Eala and Sorana Cirstea.
Alexandrova, the world No 11, is the defending champion, having beaten Dayana Yastremska in the 2025 final.
WTA Linz Entry List
- Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Clara Tauson
- Liudmila Samsonova
- Emma Raducanu
- Jelena Ostapenko
- Emma Navarro
- Alex Eala
- Sorana Cirstea
- Jacqueline Cristian
- Sara Bejlek
- Ann Li
- Marketa Vondrousova
- Dayana Yastremska
- Barbora Krejcikova
- Antonia Ruzic
- Tatjana Maria
- Daria Kasatkina
- Zhang Shuai
- Karolina Pliskova (SR)
- Julia Grabher (WC)
- Sinja Kraus (WC)
- Lilli Tagger (WC)