(CNN) — Tras ganar el US Open with a tan only 18 years old, Emma Raducanu tenía el mundo a su pies. Embargo-free, because the outcome isn’t all that it seems, and the British tennis player has had a franchise on his life since he earned his first Grand Slam title.
In the statements a Sunday timesRaducanu returned to the side of the sporting exit that many did not come and to the impact he had on her.
“Cuando gané was muy ingenua,” admits Raducanu. “About what he told me in the last two years, the circuit and everything he brought together, it’s not a very pleasant space, I’m sure of confidence.
“Hay que estar alerta porque hay manyos tiburones ahí fuera. Creo que la gente del sector, sobre todo yo, que tenía 19 años y ora 20, me ve como una cancía”.
“Ha sido difícil desenvolverse. Me he quemado varias veces. Aprendí a manten tu círculo lo más pequeño possible”, added the number 128 del mundo.
Raducanu won the 2021 Open to United States (US Open), winning the first game of the preliminary stage where the Grand Slam won after defeating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez 6-4 and 6-3, in the final of the teenagers , in Flushing Meadows since 1999.
The Brit has been the protagonist of an incredible race throughout the tournament, since giving up a set in new parties, and seems to be an indisputable favorite to triumph in the future on the circuit.
Raducanu defeated Leylah Fernandez in the final of the 2021 US Open. (Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images)
But, since that surprising victory, the 20-year-old has seen a plague of injuries.
“Desde entonces he tenido manyos contratiempos, uno tras otro. I’m resistant, my tolerance is high, but it’s not easy. And at times I’m sorry for my mistake that I wish I’d never won the US Open, that I’d say no hubiera sucedido”, he acknowledged Raducanu.
A principis de mayo, Raducanu surrendered to an operation in ambas muñecas and in one of sus tobillos e dijo that estaría alejada de las canchas “during los próximos meses”, mientras recuperaba.
“I’m due to miss the summer events [boreal] I tried to give importance back to the issues, así que doy las gracias a todos mis seguedores que siguieron apoyándome cuando no conocían los hechos”, Raducanu escribió in a handwritten map published in instagram.
Raducanu admitted to the Sunday Times that he judged a pesar de este pain to avoid ser “percibida como débil”.
Además de luchar contra les diverses lesiones, el side mental del deporte también se estaba volving difícil de support para la joven estrella del tenis, dijo.
“Sometimes there was a lot of pressure to make it clear, people had no idea who was passing by and I wanted to maintain that appearance, look at me all inside. It was very hard.
And why I criticize myself for that when I don’t know what happens. turns is completely brutal”.
Ben Morse of CNN contributed to the article.
