It is hardly a drought to compare with our footballers across the pond, but Emma Raducanu’s five years of hurt continues. Hurt being the operative word as, on the precipice of a first title since the US Open in 2021 – and on home soil at that – she was hampered by a thigh injury in going down 6-0, 7-6 to Donna Vekic in the final of the HSBC Championships.
The well-heeled and Panama-hatted denizens of west London arrived expecting a coronation at the Queen’s Club, a title for Raducanu which would have had huge significance in at least partially dislodging
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