Emma Raducanu reveals she sometimes wishes she never won US Open

Emma Raducanu did not driblet a acceptable connected the mode to winning the 2021 US Open title

Emma Raducanu said "sometimes I deliberation to myself 'I privation I'd ne'er won the US Open'" arsenic she spoke astir her carnal and intelligence struggles since then.

Raducanu has suffered a bid of injuries since past and is presently sidelined aft wrist and manus surgery.

"I was struggling with the carnal symptom but the intelligence broadside of it was truly hard for maine too," she said.

Speaking to The Times, the Briton added: "I ever privation to enactment guardant the champion mentation of myself, oregon strive for that, but I knew I couldn't."

Raducanu divided with manager Sebastian Sachs, her 5th manager successful little than 2 years, successful June.

She has played lone 10 WTA Tour matches successful 2023, winning conscionable five, with 3 of those victories coming astatine Indian Wells.

"I precise overmuch connect my self-worth to my achievements," she said.

"If I mislaid a lucifer I would beryllium truly down, I would person a time of mourning, virtually staring astatine the wall. I consciousness things truthful passionately and intensely."

Raducanu did not driblet a acceptable connected the mode to triumph astatine the US Open successful New York erstwhile she bushed Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 successful the final.

But she has not gone beyond the 2nd circular of a Grand Slam since past and her ranking has tumbled from 10th successful July 2022 to 128th.

She missed this year's French Open and volition besides beryllium absent from Wimbledon aft insignificant operations connected her ankle and hands.

"That infinitesimal connected the court, erstwhile I was celebrating [the US Open win], I was like, I would virtually commercialized immoderate conflict successful the satellite for this moment," said Raducanu.

"Anything tin travel my way, I volition instrumentality it for what I person close present due to the fact that this is the champion happening successful the world. I promised myself that, connected the tribunal that day.

"Since past I've had a batch of setbacks, 1 aft the other. I americium resilient, my tolerance is high, but it's not easy. And sometimes I deliberation to myself 'I privation I'd ne'er won the US Open, I privation that didn't happen'.

"Then I americium like, 'remember that feeling, retrieve that promise', due to the fact that it was wholly pure."

Raducanu, who signed a fig of commercialized deals aft her US Open victory, said she has "had to mature precise quickly" since her emergence to fame arsenic she had been "extremely naive".

"What I person realised successful the past 2 years, the circuit and everything that comes with it, it's not a precise nice, trusting and harmless space," she added.

"You person to beryllium connected defender due to the fact that determination are a batch of sharks retired there. I deliberation radical successful the industry, particularly with maine due to the fact that I was 19, present 20, they spot maine arsenic a piggy bank.

"It has been hard to navigate. I person been burnt a fewer times. I person learnt, support your ellipse arsenic tiny arsenic possible."