Bianca Andreescu says she perfectly understands what Emma Raducanu has been going through as the 23-year-old Canadian insists winning a Grand Slam at a very young age brings pressure and attention that is not easily manageable.
In 2019, Andreescu was 18 when she became a WTA 1000 champion in Indian Wells, and just after turning 19, she also won a WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto and became a Grand Slam champion at the US Open. Since then, five years have passed and Andreescu hasn’t won any titles and it has been a long time she was last time ranked inside the top-10 in the world. However, this Sunday, Andreescu will have a chance to end her title drought in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch final.
In the last couple of years, Andreescu several times spoke about how big pressure and expectations got to her after her US Open and that was one of the reasons why she took a mental health break a couple of years ago and considered retiring from tennis.
Two years after Andreescu’s impressive US Open win, another happened at Flushing Meadows after an 18-year-old Raducanu became the first qualifier in tennis history to win a Grand Slam title. But since then, Raducanu hasn’t won any titles and she has been one of the most…
