Aryna Sabalenka vs Emma Raducanu gripped Wimbledon and the country for a night – David Law on where Raducanu can go from here. From the latest episode of The Tennis Podcast, recorded weekly throughout the year and daily during the four Grand Slams including Roland Garros. The Tennis Podcast is part of the @Athletichq Podcast Network. Available wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube.
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in the moment. I think it is it’s a heartbreaker, but I think it’s so much she she’s had some real hammerings from top players this year, and she needed to have some encouragement. She needed to have something where she was toe-to-toe with the best and not overwhelmed. And that’s what she had tonight. And actually, what was really impressive to me is I mean, I I watched the whole of the first set on the hill. It sounded like people were trying to get their voices through the screen so that they could be heard by Radicanu as well. Um, but the fact that she came so close in a in such a long first set and didn’t lose the second set 6-1. Yeah. Which I think would have been completely understandable. If you’d have asked me for a prediction at that point, that’s what I would have gone with. the fact that she then holds immediately and breaks and leads and is running away with that set until Sabalena just found a gear that I’m not sure even I don’t think Radakana has it. I don’t know whether she ever will because they are two different as as tennis players. They’re like boxers in different weight categories. Radicanu played brilliantly but there’s a limit to how hard she can hit a tennis ball. Sabalena was as precise as Rodicanu, as piercing in her distribution of ground strokes, but with just blunt force. And that’s why she’s won all these Grand Slam titles. And I thought she showed what a champion she is tonight. And yet, I think that Radakana will come out of this thinking, I want to work even harder. I want to work this summer now because I’m not that far away and I want to feel this
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This is a repeat…sorry but heard it all before. Same attitude from pundits and public about Emma as there was about Tim. One glaring difference Tim Henman doesn’t have a grand slam but he was a consistent high ranking player for a long time. Tim a great in a golden era of players.