“I would say the last few weeks have been a lot. I think from the performance today it was very clear that mentally and emotionally I was exhausted,” Emma Raducanu had explained upon her first round exit at the Madrid Open.
The Brit’s opponent at Madrid’s opening round was Argentina’s Marie Lourdes Carle who on paper, Emma should have defeated. The French Open entry may look very murky to Raducanu because she’s at that ‘rock and a hard place’ situation and doesn’t know what decision would put her in a better light.
Emma’s protective ranking is no. 103, a bit low to just go into the French Open. She’s had two surgeries and as yet has only mentioned her being exhausted but not hurting or painful. She wasn’t given a wild card into Roland Garros and neither were a few others as Simona Halep and Caroline Wozniacki.
Technically that may mean the Brit would get in by the late withdrawals of some or doing the qualifying rounds for entry if she would win her qualies. What are the positives for Emma Raducanu doing well in the qualies? Well, she’s helped her Great Britain team win over France at the Billie Jean King Cup.
She was well appreciated there. When she played Iga Swiatek in the Stuttgart quarterfinal, Emma played tough and fearless, bringing the Pole Lady to a…
