"If my ranking plummets to 100 then I don't care" - says Emma Raducanu

Emma Raducanu is not worried about dropping low on the rankings as she is focused on the process and the ranking has very little to do with it.

Raducanu has a plan on how to go about her career and the plan is getting comfortable with being a professional tennis player. It's a lifestyle that features a lot of sacrifices and the Brit has yet to get used to it as this is her rookie season on the Tour.

The US Open is a crucial event for her because an early exit could see her ranking plummet which would complicate things for her but she is not worried:

"I think that no matter what I said, I probably did have, you know, certain expectations of myself that were probably a bit twisted. And now I genuinely just accept it. Okay, it's not going to be pretty necessarily or easy, but I'm like 100% okay for starting over, to be honest. Like if my ranking plummets to like 1000 or whatever, then I don't care."

She added:

"Yeah, I think that I feel -- it's more I feel wiser now compared to, like, just after the US Open and the beginning of this year. I know that being a US Open champ I'm going to somehow pull my way back up there. It's going to take a bit of time maybe, but, yeah, I'm just really, you know, accepting of that and looking forward to whatever journey it takes."