Having opted to skip this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, Raducanu also missed WTA 1,000 events in Toronto and Cincinnati in the lead-up to the US Open
Raducanu admitted afterwards that she lacked some match sharpness against Kenin.
“I got off to a bit of a slow start, but did really well to fight back in sets two and three and there wasn’t much in it,” Raducanu said.
“I think I worked my way into the match pretty well, but at this level you can’t really afford to have a slow start of the set and start from a set down.
“I know when I have a lot of matches, just like every player, you feel really good, you feel like everything’s automatic.
“I can learn from it and manage my schedule slightly differently.”
After an injury-plagued 2023, Raducanu returned to the tour in January and reached the second round of the Australian Open.
She skipped the clay-court French Open to focus on being fit for the British grass season – a decision that seemed to have paid off when she made an impressive run to the Wimbledon fourth round.
“I think I’ve made progress considering where I was at the start of the year – I didn’t play for seven months,” the world number 71 added.
“I had a month of December training after three surgeries so I think to climb back into the top 100 was a really good achievement.”
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