Emma Raducanu

Emma Raducanu's Wimbledon return proved to be an anti-climax as the US Open champion exited in the second round with a straight-sets defeat by Caroline ...

She asked me before the tournament if we wanna play doubles and I said yes, I didn't ask her, she asked me! Available to download now on - iPhone & iPad and Android It's fair that they support Emma and of course is a great memory for me." Let me wait here one hour before the match start. Niemeier said she was nervous before the match on a show court. Like, it's a joke.

The US Open champion played her first matches on Centre Court at a time when new heroes are needed at SW19.

Afterwards Raducanu took questions in the Wimbledon press room with a familiar sense of composure. A pair of hard, flat drives, a leaping overhead, a bravura forehand volley took the second game, and suddenly Raducanu was scrabbling for a handhold. Raducanu will head off now to prepare for the defence of New York . If defeat came quickly here, this is still a story that has barely begun. A gruff male voice yelled “come on champion”. Raducanu produced a stretching flipped backhand lob and a man in grey jacket leapt up into the air wildly, only to be urged back into his seat by a steward in an air force uniform. But Garcia didn’t fold, winding up her forehand to hammer the lines and close out the match. It has felt a little strange in SW19, stripped of ranking points because of a war in Europe, teeming at the edges with Covid. She netted a couple of forehands, slumped a little, and at that point there was a sudden rolling, warm cheer around the seats, with a sense of a wider celebration of this astonishingly impressive 19-year-old, the Beckenham ingenue. Henman fever bled into the Murray years, and a gut of beloved star players. But even in defeat, it felt as thought this could be the start of a beautiful friendship. But Wimbledon embraced Raducanu warmly in her first appearances on Centre Court. It is the key relationship in this place, the one between crowd and favoured player,. For Raducanu because she was simply blown away by a more powerful opponent, a moment of cold, hard sporting reality for a teenager who is still just a year into her own elevation from schoolgirl to sporting A-lister and all-round pop celebrity. Expectations for Raducanu will always be warped by her precocious success at the US Open last year, an unrepeatable miracle of will, of taking the moment.

Emma Raducanu's Wimbledon return proved to be an anti-climax as the US Open champion exited in the second round with defeat by Caroline Garcia.

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Emma Raducanu remained upbeat and positive after her second round loss at Wimbledon on Wednesday in the UK.

After all, Raducanu is just 19 years old. The No. 10 ranked player coming into the tournament, Raducanu had some moments of brilliance but struggled to find consistency against Garcia, who has far more experience on this stage. Then when you do it on a big court like that, it’s definitely magnified.

That was as good as Raducanu's Wimbledon run would get. Raducanu crashed out of the Wimbledon women's singles tournament on Wednesday via a second-round ...

"Going back to New York, it's going to be cool because I have got a lot of experiences playing on big courts, playing with people in the stadium, playing with the spotlight on you,'' she added during her comments. I literally won a Slam,'' Raducanu said about her mindset and, possibly, about those already labeling her a one-hit-wonder. Raducanu tested positive for COVID-19 in December and has battled through numerous physical issues throughout 2022.

CAROLINE GARCIA beat Emma Raducanu in the second round at Wimbledon.

Raducanu added: "Yeah, I mean, obviously it's tough to lose any match, but I think that Caroline played a great match. It's just a reminder you got to do this, this, and that. I struggled to find a way through her today. Emma Raducanu crashed out of Wimbledon after a straight-sets defeat to Caroline Garcia - only to be warned that her secrets are out. “Then obviously everyone gets knows you, especially when you are doing great, which is her case. But obviously it's pretty tricky most of the time to find video or good quality matches where you can watch how they are doing.