"Well ground and very smart" says Andy Murray on Emma Raducanu expecting her to manage expectations well

In an interview with Eurosport at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition, an event Raducanu was forced to miss after contracting Covid-19, three-time Slam champion Andy Murray said:

“I feel like because she won the US Open and won a Grand Slam at 18, that for a period of time I imagine the press would be quite lenient with her. There will be certain stages in her career, certainly around Wimbledon and the grass-court season where the expectations are extremely high. There’ll be a lot of pressure there. I know that that’s obviously something that’s difficult to deal with. I’m sure she’ll be able to deal with it, but it’s not easy."

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Murray fully understands how it is to become a person of interest for a whole nation. He explained remembering his own example at Wimbledon:

“She’s unbelievably well-grounded. She’s very, very smart. I’m sure she’ll be absolutely fine, but it’s not easy. I certainly didn’t have it to the degree that she’s had it but when I played Wimbledon the first time I went from nobody knowing me or watching my matches to being on the front page of the newspapers and being followed around for a period of time and it’s like overnight, it’s kind of life-changing."

He summed it up with:

“And that’s the same thing that’s happened to her but on a much grander scale. So I know that that must be very difficult for her.

“It’s just important that you have your family and your team and everyone around you and that they’re the ones that you listen, and to try your hardest to block the rest.”