The 21-year-old was drummed out of Madrid in a one-sided defeat after which she said she was 'exhausted' by her last three weeks of tennis
The 21-year-old was drummed out of Madrid in a one-sided defeat after which she said she was 'exhausted' by her last three weeks of tennis
In the stands, the LTA’s head of women’s tennis Iain Bates sat alone and stoney-faced. Nick Cavaday, Raducanu’s coach since coming back from injury, was not in Madrid and Bates was drafted in as a last-minute replacement. “It’s a WTA 1000, potentially big points on the board that that will move her ranking from where it is at the moment.“Maybe in hindsight, it would have been better to take this week off and go and play qualifying in Rome.”
She relies on wildcards that are hardly guaranteed and those perks off the court have become obligations: it should be noted that in this period that has ended with an exhausted performance, she played for the Great Britain team who have and still give her so much support, and at the Porsche Grand Prix, hosted and funded by one of her biggest sponsors. Both events came with obligations to which she could not say no, and perhaps contributed to a mini-burnout in Madrid.
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