Emma Raducanu, defending champion at the US Open, looked back on her year on Monday.surrealist», Twelve months after her first appearance on the WTA circuit at the Nottingham tournament, where she is back on Tuesday. A year ago, the then 18-year-old made her senior debut in the first round of the UK tournament, beaten in straight sets by fellow Briton Harriet Dart.
This time, she returns as the No.2 seed, and will start the tournament with a match against Switzerland’s Viktoria Golubic on Tuesday. “Coming back here twelve months later knowing what happened is pretty surreal.confessed Raducanu on Monday. A few weeks after this first in 2021, she had attracted attention by reaching the knockout stages of Wimbledon, before becoming a star Hurricane Raducanu took everything at the US Open.
Beaten in the second round at Roland-Garros
Its meteoric rise has also had its share of setbacks. His inability to find a long-term trainer, his physical condition problems or his results are scrutinized. However, she does not want to benot too hardto herself. “I’m still 19, I’ve already won a Grand Slam, so I can take my time and put things in place because my motivation is intact“, she added.
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The world No.11, in difficulty since her coronation at Flushing Meadows, remains on an elimination in the second round of Roland-Garros, defeated by Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in three sets (3-6, 6-1, 6-1). Illustration of his meteoric rise: Raducanu made his debut in the Parisian Grand Slam and only played the 4th major tournament of his career.