Raducanu needs to find identity as a player to flourish according to Wilander

Emma Raducanu neesd to find her identity as a player according to Wilander id she hopes to flourish as a player in the future.

Raducanu started her year well with a win in Auckland but her second match today brought disappointment. An ankle injury leaves her Australian Open in doubt and but there are other issues around her tennis as well. Physical struggles aside, Wilander believes that Raducanu needs to find her identity in order to flourish.

He said:

"It's not a big surprise because she has the level. She understands tennis. She has the level when she's playing well. She has to solve certain things around her tennis. She's got to solve the coaching situation. She's got to find somebody that she trusts so that she finds her identity as a player."

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Wilander added:

"If you ask me, and I've seen a lot of tennis, I don't know if I'm going to put her in the aggressive category or if I'm going to put her in the defensive category. If I'm going to put her forehand better than her backhand. Is her movement as good as [world No. 1 Iga] Swiatek? I don't know what I'm looking for because it's a little bit all over the place, and everything fell into place during two weeks in New York. That's it."

He also compared her to Djokovic:

"Novak Djokovic, for example, is the one I compare her to. Novak's strength is what? The forehand, it's really good. The backhand, unbelievable serve, really good. What's his strength, covering the court? Movement, not missing. Emma Raducanu, I don't know where she is, and I think that she needs a coach to work that out, and that doesn't take two weeks. That takes a couple of years to find a person to trust and then work through all this, and eventually one day you say, 'Ah, we found it'. This is how you need to win matches. Whatever the formula is, it's just not there visibly to me."

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