"She changed tennis" - Emma Raducanu on Serena Williams

Emma Raducanu thinks Serena Williams changed the sport forever by dominating it the sport for close to two decades.

Serena Williams announced that the 2022 US Open will be her final event. It will be the closing chapter of a great career and tributes have slowly started to come in. Most players are getting asked about it and Emma Raducanu was also asked about the legendary player:

“She definitely changed the game. To dominate that, there’s not really been someone who’s dominated like her in the woman’s game so she really did change a lot in that respect.”

WRaducanu will most likely never faced Williams on the court and they never spoke either but Raducanu drew inspiration from her like many other young tennis players:

“It’s incredible her career that she’s achieved so much. To see her around in this US swing is really inspiring. She keeps playing because she obviously loves the game and that longevity of her career is something that a lot of the players, and me, all aspire to achieve as well.”