Wimbledon New Star

[Michael Morris]

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Raducano has retired through illness/injury.

[MacAdder]

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Sad way to go out.
Feel for her and the crowd who were loving it.

[the other bob wilson]

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I see John McEnroe has got himself in trouble with his comments on Raducanu's retirement, but I must admit to thinking something similar while I was watching it live. I'd not seen her play before, so she may be like she was last night all of the time, but she seemed to be a little bit manic with her running back into position after breaks and over elaborate celebrations of every point she won. I'm not being critical there because she's gone from being someone barely anybody had heard of this time last week to carrying the nation's hopes in a few days - when you consider that she's still a teenager, she's hardly going to react like a seasoned pro and having to wait until a time when they would be close to packing up for the day on the outside courts could hardly have helped her;-

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/05/john-mcenroe-slammed-for-comments-over-emma-raducanu-withdrawal

[Trigger]

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I didn't watch last night but having seen a bit of her previous match she seemed to really enjoy being on court 1 and bounced off the crowd well.

That's obviously harder to do when things aren't going well.

Maybe she did start to put too much pressure on herself, who knows.

Good luck to her, I'm sure she will grow from the experience of it all. What a massive week it has been in her life.

[Bald Barry Bastad]

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To me it simply looked like she was hyperventilating and could not get control of it

[jon1959]

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Emma Raducanu has said she had to pull out of Wimbledon because the “whole experience caught up with me,” as Judy Murray hit out at “middle-aged men commenting on the mental wellbeing of teenage girls”.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/06/wimbledon-wish-emma-raducanu-well-and-defend-scheduling-of-her-match-tennis

[EastbourneBlue]

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Emma Raducanu has said she had to pull out of Wimbledon because the “whole experience caught up with me,” as Judy Murray hit out at “middle-aged men commenting on the mental wellbeing of teenage girls”.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...r-match-tennis

Is it OK for middle aged women to comment on her mental well-being? What about old men? Middle-aged men tarnished again.

The occasion clearly got the better of her, she’s pretty much said as much as far as I can tell.

There’s no massive shame in that but pundits should be able to say so.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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But also important to recognise those Romanian and Chinese routes might be important to her as well?

Chris Froome is African and also British (or vice-versa) and I don't think being aware of that diminishes how British he is. Isn't that the story of modern-day Britain?

I think I read several years ago that Chris Froome has never lived in the UK.

[bobh]

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What bit of her is British, I read something that was headlined "British Tennis something or other" but this was in the article..'18-year-old, born in Canada to a Chinese mother and Romanian father'...
Good luck to her, feel sorry for her if she is British as she'll soon be sucked in, chewed up and spat out.

Family moved to the Uk when she was 2.

Yep, feel it's quite possible to feel British if Britain is all you have ever known.

To be fair to her she seemed to embrace the support and enjoy it. Great to see someone just enjoying themselves, was no negativity about her.

What nationality do you think she is then - Canadian, Chinese, Romanian or British, where she has spent the last 16 years of her life, been educated and brought up with British values, speaks the language perfectly and obviously feels British. She has the perfect right to choose her nationality out of that lot and thats good enough for me and most rational thinking people in this country.

There's an excellent article in the "i Weekend" paper last Saturday by Shappi Khorsandi on this very subject.
Her family left Iran during the islamic revolution in the 70s so she feels very much British, (English) and people used to tell her "you can't support England - you're not from here!" she goes on about 'taking the knee' and stuff.
Wish I could post it - Can't find it online though.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Is it OK for middle aged women to comment on her mental well-being? What about old men? Middle-aged men tarnished again.

The occasion clearly got the better of her, she’s pretty much said as much as far as I can tell.

There’s no massive shame in that but pundits should be able to say so.

Especially ones who have lived though EXACTLY the same experience (and come through it)! McEnroe just compared his own experience as an 18 year old unknown at Wimbledon (who got to the semi finals) to hers. Which seems highly relevant, unlike his gender.

(Wasn't Boris Becker 17 and unseeded when he won Wimbledon for the first time?)

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[Majorblue]

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Cannot quite understand the fuss about a sports star having a panic attack etc.
She is a youngster, fresh out of school , playing on arguably the most famous tennis court on the planet in the biggest of the Grand Slams ( I know nothing about tennis so assuming the last bit is correct) . However, she is hardly the first and certainly won’t be the last to falter in a big sporting tournament and didn’t one of the top players have mental heath issues at a recent tournament, causing her to pull out?
Hopefully she is ok now and will move onwards and upwards in her career. Obviously she will have pissed off some on here with the football shirt she wore on the BBC news but it may clarify one other matter being raised earlier in the thread.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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