Emma Raducanu is facing a difficult task at the 2022 US Open as she is to defend 2000 points after triumphing in the Flushing Meadows last year.
The British player entered Top 10 of the WTA Rankings for the first time in her career earlier this year, but soon she may face a big drop, if she fails to defend points from last year's US Open. However, Emma Raducanu previously stated that she's not afraid to 'start again' and former world number 2, Alex Corretja shares this opinion as he thinks 'the era of Emma' will begin after the last Grand Slam of the season.
“I think she's showing that her tennis is still there,” Corretja told Eurosport. “But she needs to understand also a little bit similar to what Alcaraz has been through, but for Alcaraz, it's been like, going big steps and bigger steps and bigger steps.“
"For Emma, it was like the biggest step that you can make. And that's also difficult to deal with and to understand what's the new situation, and why everybody all of a sudden knows you everywhere you go in the world. And all the players know your game, which before they didn't know. So I think if she's capable of playing a few matches in New York, she might feel the atmosphere back.”
“And when you go back to a tournament where you won the year before, you also always have the feeling like, you know how to deal with things there, with the wind, with the heat with the humidity, with the crowd, you know, but in a way, I think the best, it will come after she finishes the US Open, because I honestly believe that she will know how to be."
“Okay, from now on what can I expect from my career? What did happen? It's not normal. I mean, it's very unusual, and it's difficult to swallow all these expectations. So I'm sure that once the US Open is finished, whatever happens if she loses the first round or if she wins the tournament again, whatever happens, it will begin the era of Emma. I mean, she will feel much more relief and much better in her expectations,” concluded Corretja.
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