Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Emma Raducanu\u2019s exit from the Australian Open as he questioned the way the Brit\u2019s career is being managed.<\/p>\n
World No 29 Raducanu<\/a> fell 6-7(3), 2-6 to 55th-ranked Anastasia Potapova in the second round of the Australian Open<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open champion revealed during the off-season that her intention was to \u201cplay less\u201d in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say that next year, I hope to play less than I did this year,\u201d Raducanu told the BBC Today Programme.<\/p>\n Raducanu\u2019s preparations for the season were hampered by a foot bone bruising injury.<\/p>\n Speaking on his Served podcast, Roddick reacted to Raducanu\u2019s loss to Potapova and expressed his surprise at the 23-year-old wanting to play less.<\/p>\n \u201cUpset on paper, but I had Raducanu losing in the second round. I love Raducanu, I think she\u2019s wildly intelligent, her game is obviously fantastic,\u201d said the American.<\/p>\n \u201cI read some stuff sometimes, where it\u2019s like, \u2018I played great in the second round\u2019, I\u2019m like, man, I don\u2019t want you to be okay with it.<\/p>\n \u201cI read something this off-season where she was saying she wants to play less this year. Play less? You\u2019re a Grand Slam champion who is 30 in the world; you have got to play more! I want her to want to play more.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t know all of it, but when you have an off-season to train, and you\u2019ve taken that off-season, you should be coming in pretty healthy.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, we can\u2019t control all of the factors involved, so I don\u2019t know what I don\u2019t know. But I saw that from Emma, I was like, Earth wants you to play more.<\/p>\n Former British No 1 gives an alternative Emma Raducanu verdict after her Australian Open exit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s next three WTA events after early Australian Open exit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know, you haven\u2019t played a full season, it\u2019s been five years since the Open win, at some point we\u2019re going to have to get to it being a job.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2003 US Open winner also argued Raducanu will not return to the upper echelons of the rankings if she does not fully commit to improving physically.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe it\u2019s at the point where it\u2019s like, how about we don\u2019t play until we\u2019re fully ready and then we play a lot,\u201d Roddick continued.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s either fully pull back and fully commit and become a physical machine, with training and time and intent. But half in, half out\u2026 I don\u2019t know, at some point, we\u2019re going to have to come up with a strategy.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think the way that it is being managed now is going to manifest in a top five or a top 10 ranking. It\u2019s just not.<\/p>\n \u201cI would love to be wrong about this because I think she\u2019s great for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: What Emma Raducanu\u2019s early Australian Open exit really reveals about her progress<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu gets candid advice as Andy Roddick questions her approach after Australian Open exit<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Emma Raducanu\u2019s exit from the Australian Open as he questioned the way the Brit\u2019s career is being managed. World No 29 Raducanu fell 6-7(3), 2-6 to 55th-ranked Anastasia Potapova in the second round of the Australian Open on Wednesday. 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