Tennis coach Murray says Brit will have to cope with growing demands in her first full season
\n LONDON
\nUS Open champion Emma Raducanu faces a \u201csteep learning curve\u201d ahead of her first full season on the WTA Tour, Judy Murray, a tennis coach and mother to three-time Grand Slam winner Andy, said on Sunday.
\nRaducanu stunned the sporting world in September by becoming the first qualifier to win a major after beating Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez in the final at Flushing Meadows. She was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday.
\n\u201cThe next 10 months will be completely different to anything she has experienced in her fledgling albeit incredibly exciting career,\u201d Murray wrote in a column for the Daily Telegraph.
\n\u201cIt will be a steep learning curve on the women\u2019s circuit as she adjusts from the relative anonymity of an A-Level schoolgirl to the dog-eat-dog world of week in, week out tour tennis.
\n\u201cAdd to that the expectation and demands of fans, media, sponsors and agents and you can see how her life has changed out of sight since winning the US Open.\u201d
\nRaducanu has enjoyed mixed fortunes since her Grand Slam triumph, losing early at Indian Wells in the United States and going out in the quarter-finals in Romania before being beaten in the first round of the Linz Open in Austria.
\nShe was also forced to pull out of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi after testing positive for Covid-19.
\nMurray stressed the importance of giving the 19-year-old some space to develop her game.
\n\u201cI was so pleased to hear her say she wants to prioritise the development of her game and work on her fitness in the build up to the Australian Open,\u201d Murray added.
\n\u201cHer tennis is already in such a good place, but it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t heap expectation and pressure on her.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s give her time and space to grow her game and get to grips with what the pro tennis circuit will demand of her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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