Emma Raducanu 'losing respect of tennis locker room' - but is defended by Nick Kyrgios
dailystar.co.ukEmma Raducanu after former tennis ace Daniela Hantuchova accused her of losing the respect of the locker room.It has been a wild 12 months for the British no.1, 19, who gained her first major honour at Flushing Meadows last September.
But since then, Raducanu has failed to hit top form with the Brit most recently crashing out of the Miami Open to 53rd seed Katerina Siniakova.Hantuchova told Amazon Prime Video: "The thing is now with Emma, everyone wants to beat her.
Everyone is trying to figure out how to play against her. All the locker room respect she had after the US Open is now kind of going away which is a shame."It is going to be important now for Emma to regroup, rethink what she has to change and get out there on the practice court.
There is no other way around it. Just keep putting the hard work in."Since lifting the US Open trophy, the Toronto-born star has won just four WTA singles matches - though injuries and covid-19 have stripped her of game sharpness.
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