Future at Stake: Raducanu Reveals Why She ‘Took A Risk’ in Other to secure her Future in 2025…
Emma Raducanu made a surprise admission when she confirmed that her serve is being changed, hoping to make it better long-term by the time 2025 rolls around.
Raducanu has always been a very interesting player for analysts to observe. On the one hand, her approach and some choices regarding her coaching staff, as well as some other decisions, like her scheduling, were criticized for obvious reasons, but there are also plenty of things that she was praised for.
One thing in particular was her technique, which is very sound overall. It’s not uncommon to see odd techniques in tennis, especially in very young players, but her technique was praised for being textbook for the sport.
Even so, she’s currently making some changes when it comes to her serve. After her most recent win at the Korea Open, Raducanu admitted that she has been working on her serve.
She’s not doing minor changes either; she’s making significant changes with the hope of making her serve even better. There is plenty of risk involved, especially short term, and it showed in her second-round match at the 2024 Korea Open against Yuan Yue at times, but she’s hoping that the decision pays off for next year.
“If you watch my serve over the past few months, since the clay season it’s gone through a lot of iterations in terms of swing. In general, if you play a lot of tournaments, things move out of place without you really realising, and then it’s harder to get the natural feeling back.”
“We’ve been working hard the last week looking at the swing, and which swing suits me best. It’s been pretty big changes, it’s not like we’re just changing the ball placement.”
Despite tinkering with the serve potentially negatively impacting the final stages of her 2024 season, Raducanu hopes to finish strongly and set herself up for a good 2025 season.
Most of this year has been about the big picture for the 2021 US Open winner, and it’s an interesting approach that might pay off. It’s sensible in nature, but how things go in 2025 will ultimately be the best test.
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“Me and my coach decided we were going to take a risk and we were going to tweak things. We know it might not pay off short-term. But one thing I do back myself on is I pick things up pretty quickly. In the first match it didn’t transfer yet, but today it definitely did.”
“I just have to think bigger-picture. My goals are finishing this season strong but inevitably to set myself up in the best way possible for next year, because next year I really want to hit the ground running.”
Her next match in Seoul will be against Daria Kasatkina, a player Raducanu hasn’t beaten before. Beating her will be very tough because it’s not the best matchup for the Brit, but she’s hopeful.
“I think these courts suit her because they bounce quite a bit. But for me, every time I get exposure to that top level of opponent, it’s invaluable. It allows me to build confidence. It’s a match where I don’t really have anything to lose.”
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Anastasia Potapova and Alexander Shevchenko may be done as a tennis couple less than a year after marrying as fans have noticed that the WTA star has removed all of their pictures from her Instagram account, as well as unfollowed the ATP player.
After starting their relationship in late 2022, the pair announced engagement last September and tied the knot just three months later.
During their relationship, the couple – both 23 years old – were posting about their time together and on Potapova’s Instagram, there was a post about their engagement and later wedding. But those posts are all gone – and as it is usually the case – the pair unfollowed each other.
Potapova spoke very highly of Shevchenko and how she felt around him
In mid-2023, the two-time WTA champion acknowledged in an interview that dating a fellow player has its challenges but also noted that she and the ATP world No. 58 figured out a good way to deal with that.
“We’ve been dating for six months. Obviously, I didn’t know how it was going to work because scheduling in tennis is never easy. But somehow we’ve been able to manage it and in fact, it’s like we’ve spent every week together and we see each other a lot, which is a very good thing,” she told tennis.com last June.
In the same interview, the former world No. 21 pretty much described Shevchenko as someone who perfectly understands her and her needs.
“It’s really helpful to have someone who can support you, not just on your team, but someone you’re close to. He’s someone who not only knows tennis but also wants what is best for you. Even if I don’t play well, he’s still going to support me, so that’s very nice to have someone like this on the tour. He understands,” Potapova said at the time.
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