Meet Emma Raducanu, the British Teen Taking Tennis By Storm

’s tennis racket slices through the air to the approving coos of spectators, as dust rises from where her feet have gracefully landed on the ground. From underneath her cap, she stares straight ahead, focused, serious. Then the camera clicks and the 18-year-old from Kent breaks into a wide, toothy grin.

Until a few months ago, Raducanu was too. She’s still awaiting her A-level results when we meet, and the night before hershoot, she was dressed up to the nines on a golf course in Orpington at her school prom surrounded by her proud, gobsmacked classmates. To them, Raducanu laughs, she is still the “kid from year seven,” the “quiet one who didn’t really raise her hand.”

Being the “odd one out” was something Raducanu, at first, had to grow used to, but then took pleasure from. “When I was younger, I was the only girl in my group karting or doing motocross, and I thought it was pretty cool,” she says, with such pure enthusiasm that, for a moment, you’re reminded just how young she still is. “For example, one time, my motocross teacher was like, right, we’re going to do press-ups. I was the only one who could do it, so I was proud of myself for that.

Ultimately, Raducanu knew “it was the best decision for my health and my body” to retire from the match. Equally, she thinks, on the matter of Naomi Osakaof press conferences, and eventually from the French Open in May, that you have to “prioritize yourself.” “If that’s the best thing for her health, mental health, and wellbeing then I think that that’s the right thing to do, because at the end of the day, you’re on this journey alone, no matter how many people are in your corner.

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