Emma Raducanu admits there is one key area of her clay-court game that she needs to work on, although she acknowledges she is \u201cnot really sure how to improve that\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old has limited experience playing on the red dirt as last year she featured in six matches for a 4-2 record, in 2023 she played only one match while in 2022 she completed 11 matches (6\u20135).<\/p>\n
After winning her opening match at the 2025 Madrid Open, Raducanu followed it up with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 loss against 24th seed Kostyuk.<\/p>\n
Despite getting only one win at the WTA 1000 event, the world No 49 is seeing her glass as half full.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s positive to get through and play two matches on the outdoor clay courts,\u201d she stated. \u201cI would say that it is pretty noticeable to me that I don\u2019t necessarily feel very comfortable, but I think that\u2019s something that I can improve on and work on.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it is my second proper clay season and the first one in three years. So I think I\u2019m just trying to give myself a chance to play as many points as I can on it, and also [I need] time on the court training as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the most important features of being a successful clay-court player is the ability to move, especially slide, on the surface and the 2021 US Open winner admits she is yet to master the art.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found moving really difficult,\u201d Raducanu added. \u201cI felt like I was slipping around, but it was taking me a long time to get out of the corners and after the serve as well. I\u2019m not really sure how to improve that, so I guess I\u2019ll just take that back and try to work on it in the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former world No 10 will now head back to the training court before she returns to action at the Italian Open with the tournament running from May 6 to 18 before the clay-court season comes to a conclusion at the French Open (May 25 to June 8).<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu\u2019s link-up with new coach could face one major obstacle<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu closing in on prize money breakthrough as she makes telling confession<\/a><\/p>\n Former British player turned tennis pundit Colin Fleming feels Raducanu can enjoy a successful run on clay this year.<\/p>\n \u201cEmma Raducanu is a competitor. She\u2019ll be disappointed at this stage but I think when the dust settles there\u2019s a lot to take from this match. This was a good level at times on a surface where she hasn\u2019t played a lot of tennis recently,\u201d he told Sky Sports Tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cIf she can keep working, keep finding her feet in the clay, her movement, her balance and just comfort on this surface. I think she can still have some great results in this clay-court season and I think it will serve her well for beyond that into the grass and the hard.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of positives to take from this one.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu makes \u2018uncomfortable\u2019 admission after Madrid Open defeat<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu admits there is one key area of her clay-court game that she needs to work on, although she acknowledges she is \u201cnot really sure how to improve that\u201d. The 22-year-old has limited experience playing on the red dirt as last year she featured in six matches for a 4-2 record, in 2023 she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}