Emma Raducanu

[Muzzer79]

g4ry13 said:

Muzzer79 said:

Stan the Bat said:

Needs to get her career back on the road again.

Lest we forget, she is still only just turned 21......

Retirement in the next 5 years or so. Tennis careers generally aren't that long.

Nearly half of the current women’s top 20 are over 26?

Serena Williams won her last major at 36 and held all four major titles at the same time when she was 34.

[Horsey McHorseface]

Lauren Davis withdraws from Australian Open, therefore Emma moves into AO MD.

[g4ry13]

Muzzer79 said:

g4ry13 said:

Muzzer79 said:

Stan the Bat said:

Needs to get her career back on the road again.

Lest we forget, she is still only just turned 21......

Retirement in the next 5 years or so. Tennis careers generally aren't that long.

Nearly half of the current women’s top 20 are over 26?

Serena Williams won her last major at 36 and held all four major titles at the same time when she was 34.

Saw this article which says average age is 27.

Women also tend to peak earlier than men at around 20-21. Top players may retire a bit later but I wouldn't put Emma in that bracket - she's more Anna Kournikova.

[UTH]

What time do we think she'll be on tomorrow, given play starts at 0030 and she's third.....

[nickfrog]

Difficult to tell as even if the matches before hers are short there may be a "not before" time for her match. Does the ASB Open site say anything?

[rjfp1962]

g4ry13 said:

Saw this article which says average age is 27.

Women also tend to peak earlier than men at around 20-21. Top players may retire a bit later but I wouldn't put Emma in that bracket - she's more Anna Kournikova.

The difference being Emma Raducanu has won a tournament and Anna Kournikova hasn't...!

[McGee_22]

rjfp1962 said:

g4ry13 said:

Saw this article which says average age is 27.

Women also tend to peak earlier than men at around 20-21. Top players may retire a bit later but I wouldn't put Emma in that bracket - she's more Anna Kournikova.

The difference being Emma Raducanu has won a tournament and Anna Kournikova hasn't...!

^^^This.

Regardless of what she does in the future she will always be on this list.

British Women Singles Grand Slam winners in the Open Era (1970-on)

1972 Virginia Wade - Australian Open
1976 Sue Barker -French Open
1977 Virgina Wade - Wimbledon
2021 Emma Raducanu - US Open

[Stan the Bat]

UTH said:

What time do we think she'll be on tomorrow, given play starts at 0030 and she's third.....

Flashscore usually seems to give a good approximate time and updates it.

[Stan the Bat]

Flashscore is saying 0530 hrs.

[James6112]

McGee_22 said:

^^^This.

Regardless of what she does in the future she will always be on this list.

British Women Singles Grand Slam winners in the Open Era (1970-on)

1972 Virginia Wade - Australian Open
1976 Sue Barker -French Open
1977 Virgina Wade - Wimbledon
2021 Emma Raducanu - US Open

That doesn’t tell the story though
The others didn’t go from hero to zero in such a short time..
What went so wrong, firing the winning coach?

[BananaFama]

James6112 said:

That doesn’t tell the story though
The others didn’t go from hero to zero in such a short time..
What went so wrong, firing the winning coach?

There's been injuries and she's had more coaches than National Express the last few years .

[g4ry13]

James6112 said:

McGee_22 said:

^^^This.

Regardless of what she does in the future she will always be on this list.

British Women Singles Grand Slam winners in the Open Era (1970-on)

1972 Virginia Wade - Australian Open
1976 Sue Barker -French Open
1977 Virgina Wade - Wimbledon
2021 Emma Raducanu - US Open

That doesn’t tell the story though
The others didn’t go from hero to zero in such a short time..
What went so wrong, firing the winning coach?

It was also the weakest tournament and she didn't meet any of the top seeds. I know we've had this conversation before and it was a combination of playing well and good fortune that it was a weak tournament.

A win is a win, but her slam was a fluke and nothing more. A one hit wonder and she will never win another slam.

[stanlow45]

BananaFama said:

James6112 said:

That doesn’t tell the story though
The others didn’t go from hero to zero in such a short time..
What went so wrong, firing the winning coach?

There's been injuries and she's had more coaches than National Express the last few years .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2023/05/15/andr...

Needed to pay Richardson his true worth after he coached the win. Parents’ meddling to blame. Crazy.

[robt350c]

Only saw the final set today.

Seemed completely out of energy compared to opponent and potentially injury niggles again impacting ability to compete.

First two sets seem to.have given some hope as to level she's at.

[swisstoni]

robt350c said:

Only saw the final set today.

Seemed completely out of energy compared to opponent and potentially injury niggles again impacting ability to compete.

First two sets seem to.have given some hope as to level she's at.

Not seen it yet but a couple of close sets with Svitolina isn’t shabby.
But even a mention of niggles isn’t good.
Full match fitness will come but if she’s still not perfectly ok after all that time off then this is not good at all imho.

[nickfrog]

swisstoni said:

Not seen it yet but a couple of close sets with Svitolina isn’t shabby.
But even a mention of niggles isn’t good.
Full match fitness will come but if she’s still not perfectly ok after all that time off then this is not good at all imho.

I agree, good comeback so far.

When you don't play competitive tennis at the highest level for 9 months, I would expect:

- a few physical niggles very early on, not necessarily related to the previous injuries. It's basically a shake down.
- a certain "rustiness" so hopefully some headroom for progress in terms of visual systems, reaction time, mental conditioning, biomechanics, etc...

Pushing Svitolina so hard is very encouraging.

[eps]

nickfrog said:

swisstoni said:

Not seen it yet but a couple of close sets with Svitolina isn’t shabby.
But even a mention of niggles isn’t good.
Full match fitness will come but if she’s still not perfectly ok after all that time off then this is not good at all imho.

I agree, good comeback so far.

When you don't play competitive tennis at the highest level for 9 months, I would expect:

- a few physical niggles very early on, not necessarily related to the previous injuries. It's basically a shake down.
- a certain "rustiness" so hopefully some headroom for progress in terms of visual systems, reaction time, mental conditioning, biomechanics, etc...

Pushing Svitolina so hard is very encouraging.

Yep, sounds enouraging

"
Her match with Svitolina was the most gripping of the tournament so far and lasted almost three hours.

Raducanu led 5-2 in the first set but eventually had to take it in a tiebreaker after 71 minutes. Svitolina led early in the second set but Raducanu battled back to force a tiebreak. The Ukrainian won that set in 67 minutes.
"

From here https://www.newsday.com/sports/tennis/auckland-ten...

[g4ry13]

The straw clutching....

Feel like some of you guys are on her PR team!

[monthou]

g4ry13 said:

The straw clutching....

Feel like some of you guys are on her PR team!

Did you watch it?

[g4ry13]

monthou said:

g4ry13 said:

The straw clutching....

Feel like some of you guys are on her PR team!

Did you watch it?

No.

But I hear she lost.