Emma Raducanu Grimzes from Eastbourne to leave the cloud over Wimbledon hopes

Emma Raducanu grinned from Eastbourne to let a huge cloud hang over her hope in Wimbledon.

The British NO1 and former Our open Champion was smoked 4-6 6-1 7-6 by Aussie Maya Joint in their second round collision.

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But the greater care only a few days before the start of its All England Club campaign was seeing Raducanu Again struggling with her fitness.

Raducanu, 22, has been hindered in recent weeks by a succession of back twinges.

And the issue seemed to grab her again when she made a series of casual mistakes, especially in her weaker forehand.

Halfway through the last set, Raducanu dropped forward while she sat in her chair during the change of ends, a towel over her waist.

Raducanu had Cut a tearful image in her first round victory over Ann LiAlthough she explained that this was due to a ‘private’ issue.

But while the number of errors rose under a blazing south coast sun, this seemed to be an important physical problem.

Raducanu did not stop running on a number of points when the Joint World No53 saw the chance of a large scalp.

She looked over to coach Mark Petchey with a mix of pleading and accident.

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It was clear that something was wrong, where Raducanu stopped her behind the basic line after she just found it again.

She showed the real character to break it more and more Nervy Joint in three consecutive games while she served for the 5-2 match to take it to a tie-break.

But Joint, 19, found her calmness in the breaker after Raducanu had rated a drop shot incorrectly and served it with an ace to take it 7-4 and to win in two hours and 33 minutes.

The question now is about which state of Raducanu will be when it will appear on SW19 next week.