Raducanu's bizarre three minute press conference in full prior to Madrid Open withdrawal
WTAWednesday, 26 April 2023 at 15:30
Emma Raducanu had a very bizarre press conference ahead of her Madrid Open where she basically responded with pretty much one or two words to most questions.
Raducanu was asked 16 questions in total but her responses ultimately featured only 58 words in total. The reason for it might be her hand injury which actually forced her to withdraw on Wednesday. The reason for the lacklustre enthusiasm could well have been another disappointment lurking which became public knowledge after the press conference was done.
We bring you the full transcript below.
Q: Hi Emma. How's it going?
E: Good, how are you?
Q: Fine, thanks. How is your physical state this week?
E: It's OK.
Q: Wrists?
E: It's OK.
Q: Have you been doing anything different with them?
E: No.
Q: When you say OK, Emma, do you mean, like, everything is hunky-dory or?
E: We're managing it.
Q: You're managing it, so it's kind of still there?
E: Yeah, OK.
Q: But bubbling under ... obviously we weren't in Stuttgart,
watched some of the match on TV, but was it a factor in that? Or was
Jelena Ostapenko, she does have days when she blows hot, it did look
like one of those days when she has the bit between her teeth.
E: She played very well.
Q: Was that determining factor of the match?
E: I think she played a great match.
Q: So, where are you at the moment? Do you feel... We were in
Miami, it was close... if you had won those break points in the first
game of the third set, I think you might have won, so that was
presumably quite encouraging after Indian Wells?
E: Yeah it was a good trip in America, tough match. But yeah, moving on.
Q: What do you think about your draw here?
E: It is what it is.
Q: I guess it's possible that you could play Jodie Burrage if she won today. She's one of your friends, isn't she?
E: Yeah.
Q: So is it nice to see her kind of on the up?
E: Yeah, of course.
Q: Do you want to say anything about Jodie, as we are trying to manage an interview here?
E: Yeah, I like her.
Q: You like Jodie?
E: Yeah, good player.
Q: Anything about her climb up the rankings?
E: It's great.
Q: You're not making this very easy. Is this deliberate, that you don't want to make this too easy for us?
E: No.
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