Raducanu has suggested she wants to get back to the kind of power hitting that drove her towards her only title as a professional player at the US Open almost five years ago, with her decision to split with coach Francisco Roig after the Australian Open in January believed to be due to her desire to play the brand of tennis that sealed her triumph in New York.<\/p>\n
Yet Robson suggests power hitting from the back of the court may not be enough for Raducanu to challenge the very best in women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n
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Emma Raducanu immediately reacts after losing her return match to Diane Parry<\/a><\/p>\n What will Emma Raducanu\u2019s ranking be for the French Open? Brit suffers Strasbourg setback on WTA Tour return<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think everyone needs the variety in their game,\u201d says Robson, who will be part of a TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a> team that will screen every match at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n \u201cA player like Aryna Sabalenka is obviously a big hitter, but she can still throw in the odd slice and drop shots. She\u2019s still trying to come forward and do new things and that\u2019s the world No 1.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, because everyone hits the ball big, so you kind of have to be able to do everything. It\u2019s not like you can just get away with crunching the ball and expect to win.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I feel like adding the power almost back to her game would be a good thing because it does feel like she lost her identity a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cBut she also has to make sure that she doesn\u2019t lose the ability to do other things out there as well because even the biggest hitters are adding some finesse and they all move so well these days.\u201d<\/p>\n TNT Sports panel led by host Laura Robson, with guests Caroline Wozniacki, Mats Wilander and Tim Henman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The ongoing impact of a virus has been cited as the reason for Raducanu\u2019s absence from the WTA Tour, with Robson suggesting the current British No 1 may take time to get back to the physical levels she needs to reach to be at her best heading into Roland Garros and then the grass court season in front of her British fans.<\/p>\n \u201cI just hope she can get back on the court quickly and can put a few matches together back-to-back,\u201d added Robson.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever Roland Garros goes for her, I just hope she can spend some time on court because the grass court season is coming and she needs to play as many matches as possible this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cHer ranking is still pretty good and I just feel you need to make the most of it while it\u2019s there. You need to keep yourself in the conversation, build up some resilience physically because it\u2019s not easy playing any of these matches.<\/p>\n \u201cAt a certain point, your body gets used to it and she is just building herself back to that level.\u201d<\/p>\n Raducanu\u2019s sliding ranking means she will miss out on a seeding for the second Grand Slam of 2026, but she will be hoping to leap back up the rankings when she gets onto her favoured grass courts at the WTA 500 tournament at The Queen\u2019s Club in London next month.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Emma Raducanu has made an important decision \u2013 what comes next could define her future in tennis<\/a><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu gets \u2018variety\u2019 advice from Laura Robson ahead of French Open<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu needs to inject variety as well as power hitting to compete at the highest level of the game, according to former British No 1 Laura Robson. The 2021 US Open champion returned to action with a 6-4 7-6(4) defeat at the Strasbourg Open against France\u2019s Diane Parry, in her first competitive match since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"TNT](\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TNT-Sports-panel.jpg\")
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