Emma Raducanu, it’s change again: time to turn over a new leaf.
It’s easy to think that winning a Slam is a guarantee of success for life. Unfortunately, that is not the case, and Emma Raducanu, who, not surprisingly, in the midst of an outburst last August, confessed that at certain times she wished she was not the tennis player who, last 2021, won the Us Open by routing the competition.
This is because, as is well known, after that resounding victory nothing went as it should have. The British tennis player was no longer able to win anything and she paid dearly for it. On the web and beyond, it is a continuous giving against her, attacking her because of that victory that, according to many, was only accidental and not deserved. The talent, however, is there and is undeniable, only that fate, it pains to admit, has not been at all lenient with the London champion.
A bit like our Matteo Berrettini, the beautiful Emma has also come to terms, after touching the sky with one finger, with a considerable number of injuries. No sooner does she feel ready to return to the court than her body starts acting up again, effectively preventing her from achieving the results to which she aspires.
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Between wrist injuries and sore ankles, muscle problems and blisters, Raducanu’s growth has, by necessity, suffered a setback that has not, unfortunately, benefited her career.
For this very reason, the Briton has decided it is time to turn over a new leaf and hire a new athletic trainer on her team. According to rumors circulating in recent hours, she plans to work with one of the top experts in the field. He is Yutaka Nakamura, who could actually help her put the injuries that have given her grief behind her and regain, it would be now, the fitness she needs to return to her former glory.
Nakamura is the right man because he has so much experience. Suffice it to say that he has worked, in the past, with champions of the caliber of Maria Sharapova, Naomi Osaka, and Kei Nishikori, so it is well understood that he could make an effective contribution to Raducanu’s return – permanently – to the square. All that remains to be seen, at this point, is whether or not the deal will happen.