The clunks are gone, the shoulders are lighter, the smile is back!
Tennis star Emma Raducanu (21) made her comeback on the WTA tour in Auckland on January 2nd after an eight-month injury break. One win, one defeat, the big comeback at the Australian Open from Monday.
Spectators laugh at him! Alone in front of the gate and then THAT…
Source: BILD / SG Bad Schwalbach/Langenseifen January 12, 2024
Both wrists and one ankle were broken; she had everything operated on in one go. 2023 was the hardest year of her young career.
Review: In 2021 she sensationally won the US Open as a qualifier without losing a set. Radiantly beautiful, a new star seemed to be born.
But as steep as it was uphill, it was just as steeply downhill afterwards. Many coaching changes (including Angelique Kerber’s current coach Torben Beltz had to leave), the immense pressure and finally injuries. The teenager at the time wasn’t up to it all. Plus a poor marketing strategy.
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Unforgettable was how the daughter of a Romanian father and a Chinese mother, who was born in Canada and grew up in Great Britain, sat in the press conference after her early Wimbledon exit in 2022, adorned with necklaces, rings and all sorts of other jewelry from a sponsor.
It couldn’t be more inappropriate for someone not even 20 years old; She also felt visibly uncomfortable, as it flashed and glittered on her after a bitter disappointment. Apparently she was badly advised and couldn’t get out of the negative spiral.
Emma Raducanu posted this picture from the hospital in 2023 when she had her first wrist operation
Photo: instagram.com/emmaraducanu
Injuries and an eight-month break followed, which would probably have been necessary even without the injuries. But now life played fate. Now Raducanu spoke in Melbourne about her difficult last year. She seems relieved, at peace with herself, and can even laugh again.
“For a while I had a scooter to get around. I couldn’t even write anything. “I didn’t know the feeling of not being able to move my body, for example not being able to go to the kitchen to get a snack,” she says.
Calm, natural, without any jewelry. This is how Emma Raducanu presented herself in Melbourne
Foto: Getty Images
And further: “My mother helped a lot.” Renee Raducanu accompanies her daughter in Melbourne, as well as (once again) a new coach: Nick Cavaday (37), who looked after her for three years when she was ten.
With him she corrected the inhumanly high goals that are expected from outside. The new credo of the tennis hope, who has fallen to 299th place: “Long-term success for me is playing a full season, being healthy throughout and being able to train consistently for weeks.”
Her fans want to see Emma Raducanu cheer again
Photo: Adam Davy/dpa
Self-doubt is foreign to her. “I know my level is there. I just have to keep working on it to make it more consistent.” And then come the decisive sentences: “Yes, I feel much lighter now than I did for a long time after the US Open 2021. I have the feeling that I don’t have a backpack full of stones games. I feel pretty light and happy.”
Raducanu learned a lot about himself during the difficult times. “Somehow I realized that the only person who can help you is yourself. I feel like no one can really tell me anything because no one has been in my position or situation.”
“I would say I’m getting tougher and stronger.” She would like that. The tennis world would be happy.
2024-01-12 14:29:47
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