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Victoria Azarenka has suggested Emma Raducanu to choose a small crew to assist her get again to the summit of ladies’s tennis after claiming she had been affected by her speedy rise to the highest.

“When Emma [Raducanu] won the US Open, what I noticed at that time was that everybody latched onto her as if she was their friend, and I was thinking that they probably didn’t even know her a month ago. In a way, it didn’t feel very real,” she said on the Up Front with Simon Jordan podcast.

“It’s sad to hear her say that sometimes she wishes she had never won the US Open, but I think this is a very momentary feeling because if you said to her ‘Okay, we’ll take it away and you can carry on’, I’m not sure she would agree to that.

“I think the advice I would have given her is that you should not forget the people who drove you to that moment and who helped you get there. From my experience, I would say she needs to have a very small circle and a very solid one.”