Emma Raducanu has used her current injury break to reflect on her previous career as a tennis pro and the circumstances on the tour.
In an interview with the London newspaper “The Times”, the Briton also admitted that she would sometimes like to undo her sensational triumph at the US Open 2021 as an 18-year-old qualifier without losing a set.
“Since 2018 I’ve had a lot of setbacks, one after the other. I’m resilient, my tolerance is high but it’s not easy and sometimes I’m like, ‘I wish I had never won the US Open, I wish that would never have happened'”, the Brit granted rare insights into her inner life.
“The tour is completely brutal”
“The moment I won in New York, I would have traded everything for this moment. Whatever happened to me, I wanted to accept it, I promised myself that at the moment because it felt like the best thing in the world,” he said the 20 year old. In order not to despair, “then I think: ‘Remember this feeling, remember your promise’, because it was so pure.”
The native Canadian did not paint a pleasant picture of the general conditions in the tennis business.
“The Tour is completely brutal,” Raducanu said. “I’ve realized over the last two years that the Tour and everything that goes with it isn’t a nice, trusting and safe space. A lot of people in the industry see me because I’m only 19, 20 years old, just as an investment.”