Emma Raducanu has not played a competitive match since losing the Queen’s Club Championships final to Donna Vekic back in June.

The British star has endured an injury-riddled season, which has only seen her compete in 21 matches across the entirety of 2026.

Raducanu pulled out of Wimbledon with a stress fracture and that injury has been enough to see her miss the rest of the season, including the US Open and the WTA Tour’s Asian swing.

However, she has now been confirmed to return to action as soon as the 2027 season kicks off.

Raducanu has signed up for the United Cup, where she will represent Great Britain, which takes place in Perth and Sydney between the 1-10 January.

The British star is one of many top stars to sign up for the mixed event, as the likes of Stefanos Tsitsipas, Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton, and Arthur Fils have also confirmed they will be playing the Australian Open warm-up event.

Raducanu, alongside Billy Harris, Olivia Nicholls, and Neal Skupski, and Katie Swan, represented Great Britain at last year’s event, although that was once again disrupted by injury.

She was unable to play her match against Naomi Osaka due to injury, so she was replaced by Swan. She did, however, compete for the only time at the 2026 event against Maria Sakkari, which she lost in three sets.

Olivia Nicholls is currently the only other player to sign up for the tournament for Great Britain so far, but one of Arthur Fery or Cameron Norrie will surely be involved for their nation.

As for Raducanu, her United Cup appearance could be a tease of what’s to come in 2027.

Last year saw the British star play the United Cup and the Hobart International ahead of the Australian Open, where she reached the second round of the Grand Slam.

Raducanu is eligible for a protected ranking in 2027 after missing six months of action, which is how she is able to play the United Cup despite being currently ranked world No 107.

That will also help her enter the Australian Open main draw, so she still has a very good chance of climbing the rankings early in the 2027 season.

She will be hoping to force her way back in to the top 100 at the very least in the opening few months of the season to try and get herself back on track after a heavily disrupted 2026.

2026 saw Raducanu play less matches than she has in all but two of her previous seasons in the sport, so she will want to get more matches under her belt next season.