US Open champion Emma Raducanu admits her life has been "surreal" over the previous 12 months as she returns to the scene of her first WTA Tour look this week.
{The teenager}, recent from finishing her end-of-school exams, made her senior debut within the first spherical of final yr's Nottingham Open, the place she was crushed in straight units by fellow Briton Harriet Dart.
After catching the attention throughout a run to the fourth spherical at Wimbledon, she turned a worldwide star by profitable the US Open in September.
"To return again 12 months later full circle understanding what occurred is fairly surreal," she stated on Monday.
"It's the place it began over for me and I'm pleased with what I've achieved during the last 12 months.
"It signifies the beginning of a journey for me. It wasn't essentially the most optimistic week results-wise however I discovered rather a lot and it positively set me in good stead for the remainder of the season. I felt I constructed on that each single week."
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Raducanu's rise to prominence is proven by the very fact she was requested to ship Britain's Queen Elizabeth II a message for the just-concluded Platinum Jubilee celebrations
The British participant, who continues to be solely 19, says there have been challenges after reaching success so early in her profession.
Her failure to choose a long-term coach, health points and outcomes come below fixed scrutiny however she stated she was not being "so onerous on myself" as she settles into life on the tour.
"I am trusting what I am doing and the work I am doing," stated the second seed, who performs Switzerland's Viktorija Golubic in her opener on the grass-court match on Tuesday.
"I am nonetheless 19 and I've already gained a Grand Slam so I can take my time and put issues in place as a result of I do know my motivation is not any much less.
"It's nonetheless as a lot but it surely is not at all times going to be clean crusing the place you simply clear up each week. I belief what I do."
The Eleventh-ranked participant stated: "I do not assume anybody would say, 'I want I didn't want a Grand Slam at 18' as a result of that's what I got down to do once I began enjoying tennis -- and I did that.
"For that to occur very quickly positively comes with a variety of challenges however managing, studying and rising by way of the adversities that I've confronted, I might a lot fairly have that, be taught from these experiences and preserve constructing and progressing.
"I'm doing the work from that as a result of I did it a bit backwards."
