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Radhehcanu

Stop partying luv this is for grown ups. 

tedious - she has achieved more at 18 than any of us will in the totality of our lives - if she wants to have an off day she is entitled to one.

Then she needs to get a good coach, dig in and smash it again - no one hit wonder like the other lassy who did the US open early.  

Course they are. Social media is socially regressive. Everyone has to accept they’re damned. Unless they’re prepared to don the hair shirt. Pitchforks ahoy. 

One of the best articles I ever read was in a US tennis magazine about one of McEnroe's comebacks in the late '80's. It was entitled "Big Mac can't cut mustard" which would be memorable enough but when referring to the demands of top class tennis it said

you can't be a contender and a celebrity

 

 

New coach and few years of experience and we’ll be seeing her back to her NY form.  Even without that her career earnings will be multiples of what most of us earn in a liftetime.

Anyone else get the feeling that the rest of the WTA think that she made them look like mugs, which she basically did. They will be queuing up to have a swing at her now.

The "problem" she has now as a slam champion is that losing before the semis in a slam will be viewed by as an early exit or an upset. It's a problem most would kill for of course but it's a lot of pressure.

It isn’t particularly unusual to win a Grand Slam at her age in the women’s game. Weird drop off. Wonder if her heart is truly in it or she whether she wants to be more Kournikova than Sharapova? 

Sheesh. Why do some people find it so hard to show support for a young Brit who has done so well and has many years ahead of her? The almost ecstatic satisfaction when she loses is disquieting, She won’t win every match she plays but her last two grand slam efforts were fantastic.

She completely over performed at Wimbledon and some Roffers tried to claim she was a bottler with no future when the experience got on top of her. Then she won the US Open as a qualifier which no-one else has ever done (and would be hard for a bottler) and the same Roffers decided she hadn’t played anyone good and are now revelling in every defeat.

Have a word with yourselves or you might find the next few years difficult if she continues, as I fully expect, to perform brilliantly when needed.

In women’s tennis over the last few years a number of grand slam titles have been won by young outsiders. Most have a period of adjustment afterwards when their game drops off a bit, so nothing unusual with Emma.

I think her game is well suited to grass, and I have a nice bet on Emma @ 12-1 to win it next summer.

By the end of her career I’ll wager that she will have least 5-6 grand slam titles.

Grou me old mucker, so good to have you back. Have bumped the thread you’ve forgotten for you to help your ailing memory. This is the post you made when she retired from Wimbledon:

Grouville St. Mary05 Jul 21 21:23

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Nothingburger then

First match loss in Linz as top seed to a Chinese qualifier ranked 106. Actually nearly turned it around after the other girl should have done her in straights. She looked a lot better than 106 tbf.

Just need to let her adjust - she has so little experience of tour play at the moment the big win almost does her a disservice as she has to get her early losses done in the full glare.

obviously has the talent - get the new coach in and build on the foundation. Even took roger a little while to bed in when he started. Same with nadal

TopDawg - I like you - you obviously ballin out in like dubai or somewhere like that. 

Saying that, you aint won the US open yet so far as I am aware nor made that sort of dollar at the age of 18.

Its fantastic versus 99% of the population be we into 0.001% here. 

I am also pretty successful in my field - i boss good dollar early, but radacanu has smashed it for life already. 

It's interesting to watch. She plays incredibly at Wimbledon then crumbles. She leads a charmed life in New York, her standard is just amazing - she can do no wrong. And then this.

I suspect she is taking a bit of time to find herself. She knows she has 10 years of tennis ahead, if she retires early. These tournaments don't matter much. She's probably trying out different mental approaches.

Anyone criticising is just making themselves look very foolish - Eddie Jones I'm looking at you.

First match of the year coming at 9.30 vs Rybakina who had a final run last week. Could have been worse as she was due to play Swiatek. An absolutely stacked draw so Raducanu is unseeded.

It's on Prime if people are bored of work.

Bagel and breadstick ouch. Looking increasingly like she won back to back 250 level events in NY (still an astonishing feat) but they called her US Open champion for it.

Quite annoyed I missed this but I had to do a job interview.

What Jim said, she is 18 ffs, it is her first year on the main tour, she has done incredibly well, all the while being a straight A student at A levels.Some of you need to have a look in the mirror. Imagine if she was your daughter.

One of the interesting things about posters on rof who post weird right wing shyt is that you all seem to lose your nerve incredibly quickly.

She's just come back from Covid, hasn't trained at all. She'll be fine.

Geoff's post didn't age so well.

First match since the Aus Open in Mexico tonight. Top seed for the event as she is now up to no 12 in the rankings. Opponent is ranked 426 but was 20 before injuries so not that easy a draw.

 

 

I read somewhere that Radacanu will get about US$100m in sponsorships and product endorsements this year. So there's that. 

Really she should sack off Brexshit Island and pull an Eilieen Gu, judging by this thread.   

And federer bosses the corporate market in one of the richest markets in the world with a 20 year track record. Nah no way she's anywhere near that but if you've got a credible link that's not clickbait, please do share.

stick it in the craw of the gammony boomer racists who all hate her
 

This is just so incorrect.
 

Gammony red trousered boomers and attractive younger East Asian women, name a more iconic duo.

Looking at recent opponents, her current level seems to be 100-150 which coincidentally is about what her ranking would be if you take off Wimbledon and us open points.

Yes I know but I'm talking about current level not actual rankings which isn't the same thing. This explains how you can get to world no1 after losing in the first round for 6 weeks in a row.

Raducanu is clearly not the 12th best player in the world at the moment and she'd be the first to admit it. Since September she has been playing like a triple digit ranked player both in terms of quality of play and results.

perhaps she would have actually from a tennis perspective been better off not winning a grandslam so quickly and so young.   I can only think she is having difficulty dealing with weight of expectation, she cannot suddenly have lost ability.

I wonder whether everyone else will get the opprobrium I faced for pointing out she’s not actually as good a player as you all thought?

guy, it’s nothing to do with expectations. It’s choosing to go to glitzy parties etc instead of training…

It’s perfectly reasonable and may well be more lucrative for her to make her lifestyle that way, but let’s stop pretending she’s the new Navratilova or seles or graff

Risky stop talking nonsense , you can train and go to parties also you know . She wasn’t doing it 5 nights a week , whilst getting smashed and shovelling ounces of coke up her nose . She hasn’t become a tour player so soon , by not being very talented and disciplined 

I dont get the sechs appeal thing myself, she is pretty but there still is too much of the sixth form prefect about her at the moment, it is too soon for her to be any sort of sechs symbol. 

Ebitda, she became a tour player when she wasn’t going to the parties. She probably does get invitations to stuff five nights per week. Getting up to go the the gym at 6am is less appealing. 

Tough opener coming up in Indian Wells against Caroline Garcia. Wouldn't surprise me if she pulls out before given recent injuries. Running out of time now to make points before Wimbledon as you'd have to think the clay court swing won't yield much for her. Time might be better spent playing at lower levels on hard courts to get some confidence and matches in before the big W.

Risky certainly keeping up his record of “expert analysis” success as Emma beats former world number 4 (and is the reigning US Open champion). Obviously a nothingburger.

Could you please predict that England will never win another cricket match and never be the top team in the world? We need all the help we can get in that regard!

I wasn’t… you made the thread go

to the top of the page again. Your use of ‘former world number 4’ made me suspicious, and clearly I was right to check her current ranking 

typical police tactics

??? 
It was a quote from the bbc, “Raducanu, who is 13th in the world rankings, said it "means a lot to have come through" in three sets against former world number four Garcia.”

Obviously if you’re struggling to understand what the word “former”means then I will try to make allowances in future. wink

 

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