Emma Raducanu says she needs to “cut myself some slack” after her return to the court following her sensational US Open triumph ended in defeat in Indian Wells.
It has been 27 days since the 18-year-old stunned the world to become the queen of New York in a fairytale story, but she could not reproduce that level in the Californian desert, going down 6-2 6-4 to Belarussian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
While that victory at Flushing Meadows and the invitations to the red-carpet events that followed helped catapult her into a global star, that is perhaps at odds with her real standing in the game.
This was just her third WTA Tour event, and she has yet to win a match, and she now has to get used to life on tour and learn to deal with opponents – and.
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