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Emma Raducanu has revealed she refused to usage an antiseptic spray to dainty insect bites for fearfulness of failing a cause trial earlier the Australian Open.
The 22-year-old British tennis prima said her manus and ankle swelled up but she refused the attraction successful lawsuit contamination led to a affirmative doping test.
Raducanu told reporters astatine a pre-tournament quality league connected Friday: "All of america are astir apt rather delicate to what we instrumentality connected board, what we use.
"Yesterday, for example, I got truly severely bitten by I don't cognize what, similar ants, mosquitoes, something. I'm allergic, I guess.
"They flared up and swelled up truly a lot."
She added: "Someone was, like, giving maine this antiseptic spray, natural, to effort to easiness the bites.
"I didn't privation to instrumentality it. I didn't privation to spray it. I was conscionable similar near determination with my swollen ankle and hand.
"I was, like, I'm conscionable going to pugnacious it retired due to the fact that I don't privation to hazard it.
"It's evidently a interest connected our mind. We're each successful the aforesaid boat.
"I deliberation it's conscionable however we negociate arsenic champion arsenic we tin the controllables. If thing retired of our power happens, past it's going to beryllium a spot of a conflict to effort and prove."
'I'm a unsafe hostile for anyone'
Raducanu pulled retired of her scheduled warm-up tourney successful Auckland past week with what she described arsenic a backmost niggle, but has been grooming astatine Melbourne Park this week.
She said the root of the occupation was a spasm suffered portion grooming successful London.
"One greeting I was warming up, bent implicit to necktie my laces, and I had a spasm. That was truly it," she said.
"It took a portion to clear. I've had them before. They've usually settled wrong a fewer days. But this 1 niggled for a mates of weeks. I had to miss rather a spot of grooming earlier I left, wasn't capable to play Auckland."
Asked however she was feeling up of the commencement of the tourney successful Melbourne, she said: "I've been feeling good. I deliberation the past 10 days I've had a affirmative artifact of training.
"Coming backmost connected the court, adapting to the conditions here, has been bully for me. Now I consciousness bully and I consciousness acceptable to springiness it my champion here."
She added: "I've been playing sets with apical players. I'm feeling similar I'm holding my ain much than good successful those instances and practices.
"I consciousness beauteous bully with my game. I'm looking guardant to putting it connected the lucifer court. I deliberation I tin beryllium a unsafe hostile for anyone really."
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Raducanu faces a challenging commencement to the run - a first-round lucifer connected Monday against 26th effect Ekaterina Alexandrova.
"It's a tricky draw, of course," she said.
"Being unseeded, you tin play immoderate apical opponent. She's a subordinate with a batch of experience. I conjecture I'm coming successful with the underdog mentality. She's been successful this concern galore much times than I have."
The Grand Slam astatine Melbourne Park begins connected Sunday 12 January.
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