Emma Raducanu’s createer coach, Mark Petchey, apshows the tennis star is ‘misunderstood’ as the begin of the 2025 Australian Open creeps sealr.
The 22-year-elderly has struggled with injuries ever since triumphning the US Open back in 2021, when she defied the odds to etch her name into the history books.
Raducanu has frequently faced criticism in the years since, with some fans and pundits uncertain if she has the desire to become one of the best percreateers in the world.
Petchey understands all about the tennis star, having coached her increately in 2020.
Emma Raducanu’s createer coach, Mark Petchey, apshows the tennis star is ‘misunderstood’ as the begin of the 2025 Australian Open creeps sealr
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And he’s now transmited a belief that Raducanu is ‘misunderstood’ – while also condemning the way she’s been treated by others since her triumph at Flushing Meadows proximately four years ago.
“There’s no doubt that she is misunderstood,” he telderly Betway.
“If there was an Olympic event for cutting people down who have been accomplished, as a nation, we (Great Britain) would triumph the gelderly medal for it every four years.
“She’s had to deal with so much which must be incredibly difficult for a youthfulster who is on the cover of every magazine and everybody’s favourite tennis percreateer after the US Open.
“Obviously when leangs don’t go from strength to strength, attitudes of some people alter.
“She’s already getting called a one-Slam wonder enjoy she’s never going to triumph one aobtain, and that must be incredibly difficult to deal with.
“People cherish to apshow pot stoastys at her but there’s a lot more to her than equitable being a tennis percreateer.
“There is so much more to her personality, and she has so many other interests which people don’t authenticise.
“She’s not conceited, but you’ve got to be brave. You’ve got to apshow in yourself to exist and endure. Let alone thrive.
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Emma Raducanu’s createer coach, Mark Petchey, has fumed at the treatment the tennis star obtains at the Australian Open approaches
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“Tennis is a cruel opposing environment where you have at a Grand Slam, 127 other percreateers who absolutely want to beat your brains out.
“They want the same dream that you’re battling for, the same trophy and only one person is going to put a pair of hands on that silverware at the end of it.
“So, if you don’t back yourself, no one else is going to back you.”
Emma Raducanu has been practicing ahead of the Australian Open
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Raducanu will face 26th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round of the Australian Open on Monday.
There have been worrys she could be forced to pull out of the transport inant, having recently retreatn from a toasty-up tournament in Auckland.
Yet Raducanu materializes ready to go, with the Briton spending time practicising at Melbourne Park this week.
