John McEnroe calls for Emma Raducanu to "back up the hype"
Since her last year's triumph at the 2021 US Open, Emma Raducanu has a negative record on the WTA Tour and will try to improve it in the second part of the 2022 season.
After her first-round victory agains a grass-court specialist, Alisson Van Uytvanck, home fans believed that Emma Raducanu might enjoy a great run at the 2022 Wimbledon. However, her run was stopped already in the second round, and fans but also tennis experts are asking for some major result. John McEnroe thinks that she needs some good result, but believes in a great future for Raducanu.
“Nerves play a part here, but she’s 19 years old. I mean, she should be you know, be able to deal with that very quickly. I suspect and I hope that some big things will happen in the future, but you got to start believing, you know, back up the hype."
“She needs to get in her comfort zone with whoever the people are around her. I don’t know who they are because she keeps switching teams as new coaches come in and out of the situation. That’s not a good thing."
“But she’s got to figure it out and let’s not forget, she won the US Open. Some slouch doesn’t win the US Open. She’s a great player. You got to look at it like that. I’m not buying this idea that she doesn’t have experience (on grass). She got to the fourth round at Wimbledon last year. She knows that Wimbledon is first strike tennis I don’t mean to burst her bubble here, but I we have to give her some time."
“She’s had injuries okay, I get it. You got to obviously you want to be healthy, but hopefully she’ll realise that a lot is expected and I’m sure she expects a lot from herself. She could do some big things. How did she have blisters? I don’t know understand that part. She won the US Open, I’m gonna say it again – she won the US Open. But of course there’s a lot of expectations coming from that.”
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