Emma Raducanu's agent Max Eisenbud praised her family for the way they handled her because her trajectory isn't that of typical tennis talent.
Emma Raducanu was never highly touted as a huge tennis talent though there was always talk about a prospective career on the WTA Tour. Despite that, her parents opted to focus on her having a rather typical upbringing where education was paramount.
The Brit never left home to go to a tennis academy dedicating herself to the sport solely but rather stayed at home focusing on school and working on tennis when she found the time. Her passion for the sport was always there, but Raducanu followed her parent's guidance which Eisenbud praised in a recent appearance on The Tennis Podcast.
I don't think Emma Raducanu's family got enough credit for how they handled her. The lead up to Wimbledon and US Open wins. Here's a girl who never went to a tennis academy who stayed in school, regular school, her whole career all the way.
She barely played leading up to Wimbledon because she was studying. I mean, these are like amazing things that I don't think much of the British media talked about. And I think that's a shame because I think that was very brave of her parents and her to again, sacrifice her tennis development for education.
It's true that nobody really talked about the way her career unfolded as she truly didn't follow the typical route of many other tennis prospects. In ways it makes her achievements even stand out even more according to Eisenbud simply because we haven't seen her before.
I can't remember the last Grand Slam champion, who didn't leave school before the age of 14, who was willing to sacrifice her tennis development, to make sure she got her education.
I don't see that ever happening. I don't think they'll ever be another Grand Slam champion again that wins after going to regular school. So I think that's story was a miss.
Eisenbud shared many things about Raducanu in the interview. Raducanu herself is slowly preparing to make a return to tennis though the date of her return is not yet known.
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