Emma Raducanu to enter Wimbledon draw after fears injury might rule Brit out of home Slam

Emma Raducanu is set to enter the Wimbledon draw tomorrow and compete in her home Grand Slam. The US Open champion has played only 34 minutes of competitive action on grass this summer after suffering a side strain at the Nottingham Open.

Raducanu was forced to retire just seven games into her first-round match against Viktorija Golubic. But the British No 1 has been practising at the All England Club this week. And although she is taking a rest day today (Thursday), she is scheduled to practise twice tomorrow (Friday).

Raducanu's team are continuing to monitor the injury day by day. But they are increasingly hopeful she will be ready to play when The Championships start on Monday. The draw meanwhile takes place at 10am on Friday.

The Bromley teenager exploded on to the scene as she reached the fourth round of Wimbledon on her debut last year before her US Open triumph in November. At Wimbledon she was forced to retire midway through her fourth-round match against Ajla Tomljanovic on Centre Court.

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Raducanu's official reason for her withdrawal was breathing issues, but tennis legend John McEnroe attracted criticism for suggesting she actually succumbed to the pressure of the occasion. The 63-year-old pundit has however refused to back down on those comments one year on.

He said: "I was just giving an educated guess as to what I thought was happening, based on 45 years of being around the professional game. And what it seemed like was happening, which is totally, you know, happens all the time.

"It's not like she's the first person it's happened to. Maybe it's the first person it happened to where she was told, for whatever reason, not to continue