- Emma Raducanu 2024 tennis season is good news to the world
- She is ready to make a point to her fans
- She has recovered fully from her recent surgery
Emma Raducanu 2024 tennis season will show the world how good she is at tennis after multiple surgeries in May 2023.
The 21-year-old British titan electrified the world with her US Open victory in 2021 against Canadian tennis star Leylah Fernandez.
Since then, she has become a global tennis sensation with a huge fanbase across the world. She landed multimillion-pound endorsements by different brands including German automaker Porsche.
But after an injury-plagued 2023 that saw her tumble down the rankings and swap rackets for scooters, she’s returning not just as a competitor, but as a better tennis player.
Emma Raducanu 2024 Tennis Season
Raducanu’s absence for the better part of the 2023 season was significant. Multiple surgeries on both wrists and an ankle took her off the court and sent her ranking plummeting to 298th.
Yet, in a captivating interview before her first match of the 2024 season, Raducanu reveals how the setbacks have only fueled her fire.
She says that she is more energized than before and is optimistic that the upcoming season will be one of many successful ones to come.
Emma Raducanu with her British Airways endorsement. Photo/SportsMint Media
Raducanu explains that battling the injuries she had was such a reprieve because they hindered her performance greatly.
She had an irregular playing pattern that cost her a lot of matches.
“I would play and then I had the patch where I couldn’t play again for two months because of one of my wrists. That was really difficult because I felt like I was just getting going and then I stepped back again,” she tells Sky Sports.
Emma Raducanu Surgery
Recovery from surgery wasn’t easy either as she recalls. Both her wrists were heavily bandaged and one of her foot after an ankle surgery.
Movement became a nightmare for her as she relied on a scooter to move around using her other leg to push it.
Looking back at it all, she felt like everything she had was taken from her in an instant and had to make peace with spending most of her time indoors.
‘It was really difficult. I couldn’t really go anywhere. I couldn’t go to the supermarket; imagine being that immobile.
On the bright side, this experience only deepened her desire to perform better and win more Grand Slams. Her medical break also made her realize that she is returning for the 2024 season a better player than she was before.
“Physically, in in practice over the last few weeks, I’m hitting the ball really well. I think I’m a better tennis player than I was before the break,” she asserts noting that she is more confident now.
Emma Raducanu Playing in New Zealand Event
Scheduled to compete in the New Zealand event on Monday, the British tennis player is set to play a qualifier in the first round.
Should she emerge victorious, her next challenge awaits in the form of either Caroline Wozniacki or Elina Svitolina in the second round.
Despite the prospect of facing a formidable opponent in her second match back from injury, Raducanu expresses eagerness to commence her journey in Auckland.
She maintains that she has no fear for any of her opponents no matter how formidable they are on the court.
Emma Raducanu New Coach
Tennis coach Nick Cavaday and Emma Raducanu. Photo/Tennis Tonic
Meanwhile, as Emma Raducanu 2024 tennis season shapes up, she has picked her new coach, Nick Cavaday.
Cavaday will be her sixth coach in a span of two years. Raducanu was previously coached by Andrew Richardson, Nigel Sears, Sebastian Sachs, Torben Beltz and Russian Dmitry Tursonov.
There were concerns about her tennis career due to the absence of a coach but she was not worried at all.
Cavaday, is a highly regarded coach. He served at the LTA’s National Academy in Loughborough until he departed earlier this year.
As an LTA Master Performance Coach, he has guided the development of ATP players such as Aljaz Bedene and British Davis Cup champion Dominic Inglot.
He has achieved notable success with British players at various levels, excelling in both singles and doubles at senior and junior stages.
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