Emma Raducanu has been mocked by French tennis star Corentin Moutet after claiming she needs she “never won” the US Open at instances throughout a heartbreaking interview. Raducanu lifted the trophy at Flushing Meadows as an 18-year-old in 2021 however has suffered a tumultuous profession ever since.

Raducanu burst onto the tennis scene as an adolescent when she progressed by qualifying on the US Open and went on to stun her extra skilled opponents to defy the percentages and turn into a Grand Slam champion.

Her feat was made all of the extra outstanding because of the truth she didn’t drop a single set on her option to the title. And she was tipped to attain massive issues within the sport following her early success.

But Raducanu’s time on the Tour has been blighted by a collection of setbacks, with a scarcity of kind and harm issues stopping her from constructing on her full potential. The 20-year-old, who rose to No 10 on the planet final yr, has didn't make it previous the second spherical of a Grand Slam since her title success and was dumped out of final yr’s US Open within the first spherical.

She exited this yr’s Australian Open within the second spherical and gained’t play at subsequent month’s Wimbledon after present process surgical procedure on her fingers and ankle. At the weekend, Raducanu opened as much as the Sunday Times and advised the publication: “Sometimes I think to myself I wish I’d never won the US Open, I wish that didn’t happen.” And she defined she had been “very high and very low” since her New York triumph.

But Raducanu’s actually didn’t seem to win her any sympathy from world No 79 Moutet, who took to Twitter on Wednesday night time in response to the interview and wrote: “Sometimes I wish I never won Brest Challenger.”

Raducanu has fallen to No 130 on the planet following her downturn in fortunes. And she admitted her difficulties had been “not easy” to take care of as she added: “That moment on the court, when I was celebrating, I was like, I would literally trade any struggle in the world for this moment. Anything can come my way, I will take it for what I have right now because this is the best thing in the world. I promised myself that, on the court that day.

“Since then I’ve had a lot of setbacks, one after the other. I am resilient, my tolerance is high, but it’s not easy. Then I am like, remember that feeling, remember that promise, because it was completely pure.”