Emma Raducanu took a joker in the main draw of the Dubai tennis championships, where she will seek to end the worst losing race in her career.
The 22 -year -old Briton lost a fourth consecutive match for the first time when she was beaten in two sets by Ekaterina Alexandrova to the Qatar Open Last week.
The US Open champion of 2021 will be joined by the mentor Jane O’Donoghue and the fitness coach Yutaka Nakamura, as she was for this WTA 1000 event in Doha.
Raducanu accepted the generic entries in the main draw of the Abu Dhabi and Qatar Open in February, but lost in the first round twice.
The defeat by Alexandrova followed a direct defeat against the former champion of Wimbledon Marketa Vondrousova In Abu Dhabi.
The world number 60 lost against Cristina Bucsa of Spain when the Singapore Open opened in January, after winning a single match in his defeat in Australia at the Open by Iga Swiatek who marked the start of his sequence without victory.
As the Dubai tournament is a WTA 1000 event, Raducanu faces the prospect of another draw with the 10 best players in the world all planned.
The draw takes place on Saturday, before the start of the main draw on Sunday.
