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Emma Raducanu made her debut successful the tourney - formerly known arsenic the Fed Cup - successful April against the Czech RepublicEmma Raducanu's wrist wounded is "under control" according to her Billie Jean King Cup skipper Anne Keothavong.
The 19-year-old was besides forced retired of past month's Transylvania Open successful Romania with the aforesaid injury.
"Right now, from what I understand, it's thing she volition retrieve from - and she's assured of that," Keothavong told BBC Sport.
"She conscionable needs a spot much clip and Billie Jean King Cup is excessively soon.
"Wrist injuries are ne'er easy, but I deliberation this 1 is nether control. She's got bully radical astir her, and she's utilized her clip to truly enactment connected different areas of her fitness."
Radcuanu is presently moving with Andy Murray's erstwhile carnal trainer Jez Green astatine the National Tennis Centre successful Roehampton.
Her adjacent people is simply a pre-season accumulation successful Abu Dhabi connected 16 December.
"She's been putting the hours successful - she's looking ace fit," added Keothavong.
"She's been putting a batch of carnal effort successful in the gym, and I deliberation she volition beryllium a stronger subordinate travel adjacent year.
"She did everything she could person done to beryllium fit, but it conscionable wasn't going to happen.
"She went to the tribunal and tried hitting a fewer balls, but it wasn't perfect and she conscionable needs much time."
Keothavong has named the 4th and 5th members of her squad for the finals successful Glasgow.
The established doubles brace of Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls volition articulation Harriet Dart, Katie Boulter and Heather Watson successful the squad for the radical matches with Kazakhstan and Spain.
Katie Swan made herself unavailable due to the fact that of injury, portion Jodie Burrage - astatine a vocation precocious ranking of 128 - misses retired connected selection.
Barnett and Nicholls reached 2 WTA Finals this twelvemonth - and won their archetypal rubric successful the 2nd of those finals successful Canada successful August.
Ranked 60 and 63 respectively, they could present marque their contention debuts, though Dart and Watson stay a beardown doubles option.
All of the team, barring Katie Boulter, are practising this week astatine the National Tennis Centre.
Boulter has opted for immoderate lucifer signifier astatine the $100,000 (£87,200) World Tennis Tour lawsuit being played astatine the Shrewsbury Club.
On Tuesday she bushed Bosnia's Nefisa Berberovic to scope the 2nd round.
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