When Emma Raducanu won the US Open 2021 as a 19-year-old, she automatically became one of the big names in tennis. But the success after that has been limited and in most competitions she has entered, it has stopped in the first or second round.
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— I wouldn’t say that where I am now is the bottom, there are worse places to be. But it’s definitely been an experience and I’ve learned a lot from trying to climb back up. I think the main thing I have done is to work consistently, day after day, the British told the WTA tour ahead of the ongoing major competition in Indian Wells.
After the Australian Open, where she went out in the second round, Raducanu deleted the Instagram and Whatsapp apps from her mobile.
— I’ve been living under my own little rock. Sometimes you go through periods where you just want to concentrate on yourself and I was very happy with my life without them, she tells Eurosport.
Knocked out Linette
Maybe it’s in California that it turns around. In any case, for the first time since Seoul in September, the 20-year-old has won two matches in a row, where she first knocked out Danka Kovinic of Montenegro and on Saturday Poland’s Magda Linette, who reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open earlier this year, by 7– 6, 6–2.
Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, who knocked out Katerina Siniakova from the Czech Republic, awaits in the third round.
From the Czech Republic, on the other hand, Karolina Muchova is through to the third round, after knocking out two-time Indian Wells champion Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.