Emma Raducanu: I’m still just a teenager who gets told off by my parents, reveals tennis superstar Emma Raducanu Wiki, Bio, Tennis, Sports

The first senior grand slam experience of Emma Raducanu’s career was played on Court 18 on the quiet west side of the Wimbledon grounds this year. The crowd, who were not very familiar with No. 338, were drawn to Raducanu only by the flag next to her name.

Raducanu took on Russian Vitalia Diatchenko, the 150th ranked seed, and after a tight opening set that went to a tiebreaker, she developed a view that will soon become familiar. Raducanu permanently took her place within the baseline and mercilessly broke the second set without losing another game.

Considering her utter inexperience as a professional, if that first round win at Wimbledon had been Raducanu’s greatest achievement in 2021, she would still have been an immense success. By arriving at Wimbledon, she had won £ 29,889 in prize money in her young career, but her first round victory was worth £ 75,000.

She made her tour-level debut a few weeks earlier as a wild card in Nottingham, where she lost in straight sets. Before that, she had played 16 tournaments, all at the lower levels of the sport.

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Having spent the past 16 months inactive on international tours while concentrating on her A-levels, Raducanu did not play in 2021 until March 18.

She had no reason to expect that she would achieve something at the highest level this year. And yet that victory at Wimbledon would mark the beginning of one of the most amazing advances in recent memory.

After Diatchenko scored victories over former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrusova and Sorana Cirstea, the excitement finally rose in the final match when Raducanu dismantled her experienced opponent on court number 1.

It was the first spectacular glimpse of her all-round talent; her ability to outmaneuver better opponents with her sweet backhand and early ball hit, her stifling return on serve, and the natural athleticism that already underpins much of what people love.

The way she ended her Wimbledon, when Raducanu was forced to retire in the fourth round against Ajla Tomljanovic with breathing problems, only highlighted how little experience she had of it.

Raducanu showed how she looked at her game in ideal conditions, but she said little about how she would handle the daily routine. She had never spent a lot of time competing abroad, an elementary feature of her nomadic profession but one that can be exhausting and unwieldy.

Raducanu had assumed that it would take her time to learn the ropes and gain experience, so she opted to work with her former coach, Andrew Richardson, a familiar face who could help her as she learned about life on the road.

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