And Raducanu will keep on rising, having only made her WTA Tour debut as a wildcard at the 250-point tournament in Birmingham last June where she lost in the first round, and winning her first ranking points from a tour-level event at Wimbledon.
Without any points to defend for the first half of the season, the 19-year-old can only build on her already-high ranking and will likely be knocking on the door of the top ten soon enough.
Speaking about her potential upcoming events after her loss to Kovinic, the world No 18 said: “There is not much time, but, I mean, there is some tournaments in Mexico or the Middle East, and it’s just a matter of that before Indian Wells.”
The WTA has two events in Mexico next month, running from February 21 at the Monterrey Open and Abierto Zapopan, and two in the Middle East, held in Dubai and Doha from February 14.
The Middle Eastern events offer 1000 and 500 points respectively, while Raducanu can also only gain at the WTA 1000 in Indian Wells after crashing out in the first round last year, when the tournament was postponed to October.
The WTA has two events in Mexico next month, running from February 21 at the Monterrey Open and Abierto Zapopan.
