"I'm kind of glad this happened so I can learn" says Raducanu after Indian Wells loss

It was not what many hoped to be as Emma Raducanu lost her Indian Wells opener to Sasnovich rather easily. The British tennis player had many eyes on her ever since touching down in the desert but her first match since winning the US Open was not good. She lost the first 2-6 in 30 minutes and while leading 4-2 in the 2nd she dropped 4 straight to crash out.

After the match she said:

"Playing at night is always going to be different. I haven't had much experience with night matches. I've only played one before on Ashe. I'm still very, very new to the tour. I think that experience just comes from playing week in, week out and experiencing all these different things. I'm kind of glad that what happened today happened so I can learn and take it as a lesson so going forward I'll just have more experienced banked."

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Raducanu explained that she did not feel pressure and mostly explained the loss with the experience gap between her and the opponent:

"I didn't go in there putting any pressure on myself because in my mind I'm so inexperienced that all these, I'm just taking it all in. You're going to have highs and you're always going to have some lows where you're disappointed with how you performed. Aliaksandra played an extremely great match. You could tell she's more experienced than me. She went out there and executed her game plan better than I did. She deserved to win that."