"There’s nothing that prepares you for that overnight success": Murray feels for Raducanu and Alcaraz in sudden tennis stardom
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Andy Murray shared his empathy for Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz as young rising stars who won Grand Slam titles early in their careers and now are dealing with the price of fame.
In particular Raducanu who has had the opposite effect to Alcaraz in having a media firestorm which saw her become the most talked about sportswoman after winning the 2021 US Open.
Since then, Raducanu has struggled massively for form and is currently recovering from surgery after injury issues and while admitting he made mistakes himself coming up that he feels for them.
Alcaraz in comparison won the US Open and being World No.1 while still a teenager but has yet to encounter too many problems barring an increased level of fame.
"There’s nothing that really prepares you for that [overnight success] … I made my fair share of mistakes, obviously. You’re still at that stage where you don’t really know yourself. You’re still very self-conscious about things and you’re constantly changing. It’s really difficult when you’re young," Murray said.
He also went into examples of how your life changes when you become famous and how it transforms a player's life somewhat overnight. This being the case especially with Raducanu at Flushing Meadows.
“It’s just this changing of your whole life. [One day] you can just go out to the supermarket, a restaurant, the movies, do what normal people are doing," he added.
"Then all of a sudden you do that and people are asking for your photograph and you’re getting followed by paparazzi and maybe your friends start seeing you a bit differently and you don’t necessarily know who to trust because lots of people then want a piece of you."
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