Emma Radecanu - flash in the pan?

[mids2019]

The US open win and millions in sponsorship....a future British sporting star....

However now does Emma have to seriously look at whether tennis glory is going to be within her reach again?

Is it good for mental health to continuously justify her performance to a varacious press? Was accepting huge sponsorship deals after the US open a mistake in hindsight?

Should Emma possibly looking at new generation of British tennis players maybe think applying to Oxford or a US elite uni would be the most fulfilling life option for her? End on a high with millions in the bank and the promise of a stimulating new career path?

I remember watching the final England EU game. They had Southgate sacked regularly, and then he was God immediately a goal was scored.

Don't go down that ridiculous rabbit hole too.

She may only ever win one grand slam. That's one more than most of us on earth. And she's had surgery. Leave her alone

The problem with Emma in my opinion

I get she’s a public figure and will be talked about, I winced reading that. She’s a young woman, imagine coming across someone making that statement online about you. It would be a hard read

"I don't think it will help to have a long slow collapse of a career mentally"
How on earth can you predict that? Unbelievable.

Over exposure at ER's tender age is always going to take its toll. Back in the day the likes of Agassi, Becker and Navratilova did not have Twitter/X, Facebook, Insta, 24/7 news media to contend with. It was setting ER up to fail, the hype of expectation.

You have to have a magic combination of a hide like a rhino, prodigious talent, strong networks at the top, a very good coach relationship, a back-up team and raw ambition - oh and very, very deep pockets of the order of magnitude of US Presidential elections, to survive in tennis. Before, it was a Slazenger tennis racket a pair of Adidas shirts and a Fred Perry polo shirt and the talent but the other stuff didn't exist.

I might be utterly wrong and she may be won a major competition in future but personally I find it hard to see. At the end of the day I don't think she fundamentally looks like she is enjoying the game hence a lot of the emotion at press conferences. You might have an enjoyable career without the media scrutiny but that goes with the territory in my opinion. Most.of the press are showing some.pity in reality but which is worse constant pity or criticism?

I agree better PR would help Emma and some media coaching. It shuts in my opinion you are going to have constantly facing the press being defensive and miserbale. The media may lose interest eventually but until then you have a young talented women that probably won't reach world heights gradually losing her fame.

If she hadn't of won the open she might have been having a better.but less lucrative time. Maybe the injuries may prompt her to make a career change of have a career pause?

@daisychain01.

I agree.

there is an element of being set up to fail here and Emma is having a torrid time, maybe it would be so much easier to be Katie Boulter. There was a big missed PR opportunity with Andy Murray and I think you have to question at least some of her PR advisors on that one.

I think she handles the media pretty well for the most part, I don't think that's what she needs help with. She needs to focus on tennis not PR.

She is constantly questioned and manages to avoid saying anything controversial and has never said anything unkind about another player

The Andy Murray thing bit of a blip, I would say from a PR point of view.

But TBH his elongated retirement was ridiculous and especially the Wimbledon bit. Some players actually care about doubles, having an injured singles player limping out to lose a doubles match easily just to have another moment on court makes a mockery of it. Would have been far more appropriate just to have a ceremony.

Do you realise how much talent and dedication it takes to rank in the top 100? It’s like getting knocked out of your first heat in the Olympics — it doesn’t flag up as anything other than a pitying ‘meh’ for the general public, but it’s an astonishing achievement for an athlete.