Emma Raducanu will regain her status as the best female tennis player in Britain for the first time in two years after she continued her solid start to the grass-court season by defeating Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals at Queen’s.
Raducanu, who now sits at world No 35 in the live rankings, will return to British No 1 next week after Katie Boulter fell to the fifth seed, Diana Shnaider, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday. Raducanu has not been the highest-ranked player in the country since June 2023 when she was recovering from surgeries to her wrists and ankle. She missed a total of eight months in 2023 and consequently fell out of the top 300.
