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News Update=Emma Raducanu came under fire once more for appearing to ignore Cincinnati Open qualification following the confirmation of wildcards.

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Emma Raducanu raised eyebrows once more when the Cincinnati Open wildcards were announced.

This time, she was conspicuously absent for choosing not to participate in qualifying.

There aren’t many possibilities left for Raducanu to play before the US Open when the event begins on August 12.Raducanu may possibly receive a wildcard to either the Abierto GNP Seguros (Monterrey Open) or Tennis in the Land Cleveland, which are held the week before. However, she had to make the difficult decision to forego entering competitions during her comeback year.

The former US Open champion chose to prioritize her health and keep herself fresh for the US Open swing by turning down the option of a wildcard to the Olympic Games in Paris. However, she could only be able to participate at the Washington, DC Open right now.

She did not receive a wildcard for the Canadian Open and decided not to enter qualifying. The same has happened ahead of the Cincinnati Open with Caroline Wozniacki, Bianca Andreescu, Peyton Stearns and Caroline Dolehide preferred.
But given that the US Open was the first precursor ironically through qualifying to her career starting, a lot of social media users couldn’t get the continued logic of not playing through the rounds. “She’d better be following in the footsteps of billionaire Emma (Navarro) and scrolling through the ITF website calendar to vulture some 75K in Chicago! She’s allergic to playing qualifying when it’s literally what gave her a career in the first place,” one wrote.
Another also echoed a similar point that the decision to skip the Olympic Games now looks a bit pointless when it comes to prioritizing the US tour if only to play one event. “So Emma Raducanu’s skipping both hard court 1000 events before the US Open. This is really surprising to me… One of the reasons she gave for skipping the Olympics was to get a head start on the hard courts so missing both of these big events doesn’t make any sense to me.”
But similar to Wozniacki who has faced the same criticism and predicament, some see it as Raducanu not wanting to playing qualifying given her reputation and name in the sport. A route that others such as Naomi Osaka seem to not care about going down despite winning more Grand Slams.
But the only way it can be remedied is further success and more wins on tour as Wozniacki for instance has found in not needing as many wildcards now and even Raducanu to an extent.
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