Britain’s Emma Raducanu mentioned she was not feeling beneath stress lower than a month earlier than she returns to New York with a goal on her again in her U.S. Open title defence.
Teenager Raducanu accomplished certainly one of tennis’ most outstanding feats a yr in the past at Flushing Meadows when the One hundred and fiftieth-ranked qualifier swatted apart vastly extra skilled opponents on her option to changing into a Grand Slam champion.
The triumph captured the creativeness of an adoring British public however she has not received a event since, retiring injured in Rome in Could and at Nottingham in June and exiting each Roland-Garros and Wimbledon within the second spherical.
Whereas a return to the raucous crowds of the Huge Apple may shake even veteran opponents, the 19-year-old informed Sky Sports activities the one stress she feels comes from herself and the media.
“(Strain) is just both what I placed on myself or what I anticipate from myself. I solely really feel the stress or give it some thought every time I’m in my press conferences as a result of each single query is about stress,” Raducanu mentioned.
The Tenth-ranked Briton most just lately misplaced within the Citi Open quarter-finals to decrease ranked Liudmila Samsonova, and mentioned she noticed this yr’s U.S. Open as a chance to start out afresh.
“I’m actually trying ahead to simply going again (to New York) and no matter occurs I feel that it’s going to be a pleasant near a chapter, go full circle,” she mentioned.
“No matter regardless of the result's I can simply begin once more, clear slate. If all my factors drop off then I’ll work my approach again up. I feel it will likely be, no matter what occurs, (a) recent begin.”
