{"id":484360,"date":"2024-06-19T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484360"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:55:19","slug":"raducanu-receives-wimbledon-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raducanu-receives-wimbledon-wildcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Raducanu receives Wimbledon wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-British number 1 Emma Raducanu has been given a wildcard to participate at Wimbledon in July.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emma Raducanu has been awarded a Wimbledon main draw wild card along with Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki \ud83c\udfbe\ud83c\udd95 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EhSoKzCkD3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EhSoKzCkD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Tennis (@SkySportsTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsTennis\/status\/1803360981076132349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Emma (21) is 1 of 4 Grand Slam champs given such an exemption for the tournament on grass.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Naomi Osaka, Denmark&#8217;s Caroline Wozniacki, and Germany&#8217;s Angelique Kerber, who secured the title on grass in 2018, have also been given wildcards.<\/p>\n<p>With the wildcards the players start directly from the main draw despite their ranking. Emma is still on the comeback trail after missing most of the past campaign \u2013 including the Grand Slam in London \u2013 after wrist and ankle procedures and now is ranked 165<sup>th<\/sup> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi, Caroline, and Angelique all returned to competitive tennis in 2023 after giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>All 7 of the initial wildcards for the men&#8217;s singles have been given to British participants. Liam Broady, who advanced to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round in each of last 2 years, is the player with the most expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-British number 1 Emma Raducanu has been given a wildcard to participate at Wimbledon in July. Emma Raducanu has been awarded a Wimbledon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484361,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16981,18069,17072],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18176,18071,6273],"acf":{"announce":"Emma among major winners given wildcards for the upcoming Grand Slam.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484362,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484360\/revisions\/484362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484360"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484360"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}