Emma Raducanu goes home DEVASTATED

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An even bigger fluke than Ostapenko.

Meaningless without Novak anyhow.

When was the last time a defending US Open champ exited in the first round?

Novak is a woman now?

What is successful? She’s won under half her matches inter last year!

Too much too young. Someone would have had to be from the planet Vulcan to not be affected by how she started in pro tennis.

No idea, this is a running forum.When was the last time you won the US Open?

people are delusional that this is somehow to do with fame or mental pressure. shes just not that good and won the us open by fortuitous luck. you wouldnt go on some random rank 80 player of underachieving as if they could do better. same with her.

The woman who just won Wimbledon last month, Elena Rybakina, went out in the first round, too.

Tiger Woods won his first Major in 1997 at age 21 and did not win another one until eleven Majors later. Serena Williams won her first at age 17 and did not win another until she was 20.

Raducan won her first Major at age 18 and only four Majors have passed since. She will be OK. She may never win as many as Graf or Williams but she will certainly win several more. People need to stop putting pressure on her to win everything.

kerber in 2017 (she won 2016)

stop comparing emma to serena or tiger woods

serena and tiger are the GOATs, emma is a rich kid who had a luck draw last year.
WTA without Serena is meaningless, samo for ATP without Djokovic and Nadal.

I wonder how much tennis audience will plumet in the next few years...

Quite apart from Raducanu's difficulties it has been noticeable that since Williams decline in recent years no woman has dominated in the WTA. Barty looked as though she might assume the mantle but suddenly retired earlier this year. Swiatek has shown she might take the reins, but the WTA has mostly been a series of one-slam wonders. It is quite a contrast to the ATP, where three players have absolutely dominated for over a decade.

Two weeks ago she absolutely destroyed Serena and then the next day Azarenka (in straight sets, both included 6-0 games). Beating (admittedly) former world number ones in such dominant fashion suggests that it's not 'over' by any stretch of the imagination.

The matchup with Cornet was more like a semifinal. Cornet was on fire and was a virtual backboard for the entire match. Cornet has been a giant killer this year and ended Swiatek's win streak at Wimbledon and has a long list of top seeds that she has upset.

Emma has struggled with blisters and clearly had issues during the match. There were a lot of very long rallies with Cornet returning shot after shot that would have been winners against many other players. You could tell that the longer the rallies went on, the more pain Emma had from her hands as she would blow easy shots late into the rallies instead of hitting winners.

Emma still has it, but the blister issues have been a big issue that is holding her back in a big way. Strangely, she seems to have found a good match with Dimitri Tursanov as her coach. I think if she settles in and keeps working Tursanov, she may surprise everyone with a run in Australia this winter, assuming she can find a solution for the blisters.

I have seen Cornet play over the years and in her twenties she was nowhere near as good as she is showing now. In her thirties she is way faster, hits harder and is tireless. I suspect the usual reason.