FORMER British number one Laura Robson believes Emma Raducanu has had the perfect preparation for the US Open.

Raducanu has played just three matches since reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in July as she made the quarter-finals of the Washington Open at the start of the month.

She skipped the Olympics in order to prepare for the American hard-court swing, but then chose not to enter qualifying for tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati, instead having a training block.

The 21-year-old, who is still carefully managing her schedule after wrist and ankle surgery last year, is heading back to Flushing Meadows, hoping for a first victory there since shocking the world by winning the title in 2021.

Questions have been asked about Raducanu’s lack of matches, but Robson says that approach suits her.

“She’s not a player who needs a huge amount of matches going into a big event,” Robson told the PA news agency.

“I think we’ve seen that before, where she might play the week before, just to get some fine-tuning done, but she really enjoys the training block and plays her best tennis when she’s coming off a really strong couple of weeks of practice.”