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Emma Raducanu turned up for her Wimbledon warm-up successful an England garment connected Sunday, saying she wants to adhd to a typical sporting summertime of British celebrations.
As 1 of 19 Brits successful nan singles draw, Raducanu appeared relaxed up of facing No 22 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia. The 21-year-old hoped to watch nan Three Lions triumph successful nan European Championship past nighttime earlier securing a roaring triumph of her ain connected Centre Court today.
'I would emotion to beryllium a portion of it,’ she said. ‘It's conscionable an astonishing summertime of sport. It's football, it's F1, it's tennis, nan races. I've been saying that each time connected tract correct now astatine Wimbledon is simply a blessing.
‘I consciousness a batch much comfortable this year. There's a batch little going on. There's a batch little accent aliases chaos. I'm much conscionable coming here, doing my practice, playing nan match. Like there's not there's not overmuch other to it, whereas successful 2022 I was successful a large rush.’
Raducanu besides missed nan 2023 version of Wimbledon arsenic she recovered from surgery. This year’s SW19 is arsenic unfastened arsenic ever, peculiarly connected nan men’s broadside pinch Novak Djokovic’s information not wholly known aft knee room successful nan past month.
Emma Raducanu turned up for her Wimbledon warm-up successful an England garment connected Sunday
‘It's bully to person a batch of young players,’ Raducanu said. ‘Both connected nan men's and women’s. On nan men's side, to person Carlos (Alcaraz) and Jannik (Sinner) and Holger (Rune) correct up location astatine nan apical and they're moreover a fewer months younger than me, it's beautiful amazing.
’On nan women's broadside arsenic good it's very strong, but we thin to spell done nan stages earlier than nan men's. But it's conscionable exciting. It's awesome for nan public. It's awesome for nan crowd to spot young people, spot their personalities and really they differ.’
