Rafael Nadal has handed on his assist to Emma Raducanu amid her ‘powerful 12 months’ and hailed her as a ‘essential character’ for tennis.
Raducanu crashed out on the second-round stage on Wednesday following a straight units defeat to Caroline Garcia.
The 19-year-old has struggled for type since her US Open triumph final September, battling numerous harm issues and making numerous modifications to her teaching employees which have all contributed to an absence of consistency on the court docket.
Like Raducanu, Nadal received his first Grand Slam on the tender age of 19, going onto grow to be a legend of the game with 22 main successes to his title.
After reserving his place within the third-round courtesy of a win over Ricardas Berankis on Thursday night, Nadal was requested concerning the younger Brit’s elimination after she wore a t-shirt bearing his bull emblem throughout a press convention following her first spherical win.
And whereas acknowledging she has endured a ‘powerful 12 months’, Nadal believes she’s going to make the appropriate choices and enhance as her profession progresses.
‘I actually by no means had a giant interplay along with her,’ Nadal advised a press convention. ‘However I used to be very impressed after I noticed her successful the US Open.
‘I noticed the ultimate. The way in which that she performed was unbelievable.’
He added: ‘Then it’s troublesome to handle all this sort of success at a really early stage of your life, no?
‘However I want her all the easiest. I feel she’s an important character for our sport.
‘I do know she’s having a tricky 12 months, however then again she already received a slam at a really early stage of her profession.
‘That provides her I feel calm to take her time to maintain bettering and to maintain having probabilities within the close to future. I actually hope that she’s going to.’
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