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Emma Raducanu can rejoice in year on tour despite harshness of spotlight | Tumaini Carayol
With her first clay campaign ending in the French Open second round, Wimbledon pressures must not deny her room to grow
As Emma Raducanu dusted the dirt off her clay-court shoes and discarded them until next year after her second-round loss to Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Wednesday, a notable cycle came to a close. Having made her professional debut in the week after the French Open at the small grass-court tournament in Nottingham last year, Raducanu has now completed one year at the top level of professional tennis.
It is, first of all, a moment of reflection after a manic 12 months in which her life has transformed, a mood she appeared to be in even before her exit in Paris: “We were saying with my team this morning, it’s pretty much a year anniversary since my comeback to competitive tennis,” she said on Thursday. “I was playing a British tour [a low-level national event] in Connaught. I think I have come a long way since then. I think I do really welcome going around the second time.”
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