Emma Raducanu says she is injury free and feels 'good' following exhibition match

Emma Raducanu mislaid 5-7 6-3 (10-8) successful an accumulation lucifer with Ons Jabeur connected her wounded return

Emma Raducanu says she is present wounded escaped and feeling "good" pursuing her accumulation lucifer with Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur successful Abu Dhabi connected Friday.

Raducanu announced connected Friday she had appointed German Sebastian Sachs, 30, arsenic her caller coach.

"Physically, body, injury-wise I'm bully now, I'm clear. Touch wood it stays similar that," said Raducanu.

Last year's US Open champion volition be the World Cup last betwixt Argentina and France successful Doha connected Sunday earlier flying to Singapore to resume her pre-season training.

Raducanu's 2023 tennis run starts astatine the ASB Classic successful Auckland connected 2 January, earlier she heads to Melbourne for the Australian Open 2 weeks later.

She added: "I truly worked connected my fittingness the past 2 months, little connected the tennis court. So I'm conscionable trying to get my feeling connected the court."

Raducanu said the lucifer against Jabeur was "pretty affirmative measurement successful seeing wherever I'm astatine and what I tin bash better".

"I truly evidently privation to enactment hard, effort to get backmost connected tribunal arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable but I could overdo it if I didn't truly deliberation it done due to the fact that I privation to beryllium backmost connected tribunal truthful much," the Brit added.

"I conscionable request to possibly chopped down a small spot connected the hours sometimes."

One of her "biggest goals" for the season, Raducanu said, was to play freely and "not think" astir her fitness.

"I privation to beryllium capable to spell retired determination and conscionable absorption connected the tennis," she said. "I deliberation this twelvemonth I'm successful a amended presumption but it's inactive going to instrumentality immoderate clip to make fully.

"I deliberation my extremity successful 2023 is astir apt to triumph a title."

Raducanu besides spoke astir Sachs, who is her 5th manager successful 18 months aft Russian Dmitry Tursunov ended their coaching partnership successful October.

"We are trialling until the extremity of the twelvemonth and conscionable seeing however it goes really," said 76th-ranked Raducanu.

"It's been going well. I've done a week with him truthful acold and I deliberation he's a truly calm influence. He's connected it, switched on, and yeah, I'm excited to spot however it goes."