Emma Raducanu reveals her typical working day starts at 6 am and includes a couple of hours of practice and training, after which she prefers to spend time alone and “wind down.”
Raducanu, 21, has been around the Tour for just a few years. After playing her first tournament of the 2021 season in June and shortly after winning the US Open as a qualifier, Raducanu turned her focus fully to her tennis career.
In 2022, Raducanu had her first full season on the WTA Tour. Last year, Raducanu started the 2023 season in time but appeared in just five tournaments before undergoing three season-ending surgeries in May.
Now the first thing in the morning is getting some work with her physio before hitting the practice court. After concluding her practice and gym work for the day, Raducanu again does some work with her physio.
“Typically, I start my day with physio doing muscle activation work to warm the body up. Then I warm up for half an hour, play tennis for 90 minutes, have an hour gym session, then break for lunch for around 90 mins,” Raducanu told Harper’s BAZAAR.
“After lunch, I go on court for another two hours and finish with an hour of treatment. It’s quite a lot but not much beats the satisfaction you get from it at…