Being from Britain is another element Emma Raducanu has to manage

The country’s lack of major tennis champions is likely to increase media coverage and the burden of expectation

I was first really impressed by Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon in the round of 32 when she beat Sorana Cirstea. I was commentating on that match and she was very positive, she embraced the crowd on Court One. I looked at her as a rising prospect right then. Rising prospects, do they actually win majors? Right now in women’s tennis they do.

When you see the way Emma played her matches in New York, especially in the second week, she played at that level. She played at the level of a major champion right now in women’s tennis. What has shifted is that all the variety, the diversity of women, there’s a trickle down effect which is: “If Barbora Krejcikova can win it, I can win it. If Iga Swiatek can win it, I can win it.”