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Why Has Emma Radacanu Been So Rubbish Since Winning The Us Open?
Injuries or just not up to it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Pushed too hard, too young.
(I'm finding it hard to forgive her for pulling out of playing mixed doubles with Murray, when she'd 'led him on' by being so excited to be asked.)
Back to subj. There was a very young, very fast sprinter contemporaneous with my elder daughter in the late 80's/early 90's. She set new records all over the place and at 15/16 was being pushed into competing against young adults (her name was Merry). She began to be constantly unable to play due to injuries. I think she ended up as a local sports commentator, don't know about anything else, but she never fulfilled her potential.
Radacanu was older, but her body was not fully adult and she was probably training at an unacceptable level. Also mentally she was not properly adult enough to thoroughly understand the demands of what she had fallen into.
Bodies and brains mature at the age-old rates, not what people want them to.
She may yet come good, but she should have been held back at least a year by her parents and coaches i.m.o..
Jourdain, Katherine Merry won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics. I'm sure you knew that, though.
Raducanu shouldn't have accepted Andy's invitation to play mixed doubles. I had a feeling this would happen.
Disappointing for Murray, but tennis players have to be selfish. She's doing well in the singles.
I wouldn't say she's been rubbish, but she did peak young and is having to rebuild her career. Doing well in the singles and extremely sensible to pull out of the exhibition match with Murray. I don't understand how Wimbledon can just throw in an extra pair at the last minute anyway - so that he could say goodbye on Centre Court on prime time TV. He should have said goodbye when he played with his brother and bowed out. Who got pushed out of the mixed doubles to make way for them? I hope they have their spot back now.
If the wrist problem became an injury due to her playing doubles, people would have (quote correctly) criticized her decision to play with Murray. The singles are her bread and butter, and must be her chief concern. With as many injuries as Andy has had over the years, I'm sure he understands completely.
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