Fresh from a break-up with her billionaire boyfriend and promoting Dior and Porsche in Scotland, Emma Raducanu is back on grass at last. But here's why big questions still remain for British tennis's golden girl It remains to be seen whether Emma Raducanu can replicate her early success By Ian Herbert Published: 02:00, 11 June 2024 | Updated: 02:00, 11 June 2024 e-mail View comments It did not augur well that Emma Raducanu stumbled as she stepped up onto a high stool to discuss the tennis summer stretching out ahead. She regained her poise and laughed, though injury setbacks have become such a part of the story since her rapid and brief journey to the top of tennis that a plain plastic seat might have been more prudent.
She's back at the Nottingham Open, where the quality of her performance on the grass in a first-round defeat by fellow Brit Harriet Dart, three years ago, earned her the Wimbledon wildcard which was a preface to the unimaginable. Three exhilarating performances at SW19 that summer and a fortnight at Flushing Meadow s which seems like a distant dream now. When she struggled to live up to the champion's billing, and the world No 10 ranking, which had brought Porsche, Dior and a galaxy of other brands to her door, this tournament seemed like a place to rebuild two years ago.
But Raducanu was seven games into her first-round match with Switzerland's Viktorija Golubic when pain in her left side left her flat out on the court and it was all over. She says she is str.