Emma Raducanu match at French Open paused as British star needs medical treatment

required medical attention during her clash against Wan Xinyu, with the British star dabbing her eyes with ice and having her checked. The 22-year-old was a break up in her first-round match at Roland Garros before being forced into a timeout.

British tennis legend Annabel Croft said: "It looks like is having something done to her eye here, she is rubbing the her cheek but it's quite high up near her eye.

"I don't think she is feeling 100 percent. I think her whole physical expression throughout this first set hasn't been quite right, even though she's doing extremely well to keep on top of the scoreline."

Raducanu was 6-5 up at the time of the incident, with the umpire allowing her a three-minute break while medics treated her.

After being given the all-clear to continue, she held her serve to win the first set 7-5 after the small set-back. Raducanu would go on to lose the second set 6-4 before taking a command 3-0 lead in the third.

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Raducanu, who has struggled with fitness woes for much of her early career, came into the match after suffering back problems during her spell at the Strasbourg Open last week.

She endured spasms in her second-round loss to Danielle Collins after being sidelined by back injuries at the start of the year.

Before the French Open, the 2021 US Open champion admitted her back problems were still a pressing issue but that needling appeared to have solved the issue for now.

"[The back is] not feeling 100 percent," Raducanu said. "I had a spasm in Strasbourg, and just been trying to manage it as best I can doing treatment. I've been on the practice court last night and this morning.

"Yeah, it felt OK, but obviously it's different playing a match. I'm trying to do everything to get up to speed as fast as possible.

"I would say the one before was worse. I feel like this one I kind of caught before it fully locked up. So I think the treatment is a lot of it with the physios, a lot of it with heat. Been doing some needling.

"At the start of the year, I was so scared of needles. It was my biggest phobia. That was the only way I was going to be able to play Australia. So since then, I've been kind of dipping my toes into it because I know it helps even though I'm really scared of them. That's how I've kind of been trying to manage it."