"I think she should find her way alone" - Baghdatis on Emma Raducanu

Marcos Baghdatis knows how it feels to burst onto the tennis wolrd stage at a young age and he shared his thoughts on Emma Raducanu.

The story of Emma Raducanu is known to pretty much any tennis fan that has not been living under a rock in the past 365 days. Her struggled to live up to expectations after her US Open triumph has lso beeen recylced many times over. Heri njuries have played a part in that but Marcos Baghdatis understands that it's really not ease or simple.

Remembering his own rise, he said:

"I did block it out. I tried to find my team. I went back to my coach from Cyprus that I knew was a very important person for me, in my life when I was very young. And that’s what you should look for, friends that are in the game that were with you from the beginning, that know you as a person and keep you down on your feet and make you remember where you come from a bit."

On Raducanu, he said:

“Time will show what Emma will do. And I think she’s in that moment that she wants to be alone now, maybe hear from few people until she decides what she wants. Time will pass. Today maybe it’s not that great for her but tomorrow maybe it’s good. And again, not great and then good. I think she should find her way alone and it should come from her. It should be her decision, whether she takes a coach or not."

He continued:

I would suggest start to go ahead and find her team. It’s not just a coach, it’s an agent, the right agent, the right coach, the right fitness, the right physio, it’s a team. The right team around her that she decides and that she feels very comfortable with. That will help her take all this talking of people, on social media, of everybody on her that will help her take those things out and focus on the tennis that’s for sure.”