Emma Raducanu: ‘Generally I want I would by no means received the US Open’

Emma Raducanu has revealed she “sometimes [wishes she] never won” the US Open when she was solely 18 years previous in 2021.

The strain that accompanied her sudden success was excessive and he or she additionally admitted having to be watchful of these she surrounded herself with.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, the former Grand Slam champion stated: “I had to mature very quickly. When I won I was extremely naive.”

Raducanu was beneath the radar previous to the US Open however soared to victory with out dropping a single set in the course of the 9 matches she performed earlier than the ultimate.

However, the British primary realised up to now couple of years that “the tour and everything that comes with it [is] not a very nice, trusting and safe space”.

Raducanu added: “You have to be on guard because there are a lot of sharks out there.”

The 20-year-old hit out at “people in the industry” profiting from her due to her age.

“They see me as a piggy bank,” she stated.

“I have been burnt a few times. I have learnt, keep your circle as small as possible.”

Raducanu stated she would have traded “any struggle in the world” for the second she received the championship.

Since her win, she admitted to having “a lot of setbacks, one after another”.

After {the teenager} overpowered Leylah Fernandez to clinch the title and obtain $2.5m (£1.8m) two years in the past, her journey since has been removed from simple.

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She missed this 12 months’s French Open and won’t feature in Wimbledon on account of procedures on her fingers and ankle.

It additionally meant her pulling out of the Madrid Open simply hours earlier than she was due on courtroom.

She stated: “The pain escalated last summer after Wimbledon.

“I began with a brand new coach and I used to be actually motivated to get going. We had been overtraining… and I carried on even by way of ache as a result of I did not wish to be perceived as weak.”

Raducanu’s tumultuous season was capped after she was dumped out of the Indian Wells match in March by world primary Iga Swiatek, which was adopted by first-round defeats in Miami and Stuttgart.

She is at the moment with no coach after parting methods with Sebastian Sachs.