Laura Robson is happy forward of Wimbledon and appears forward to former US Open champion Emma Raducanu’s hopes and why Coco Gauff Gauff) is an actual contender for the ladies’s singles title…
Actual hope for Raducanu?
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Raducanu, who missed out on final yr’s Wimbledon, is happy to return to her residence skilled
I am pleased for her. She is wholesome now and pleased to be out taking part in. You possibly can see her pleasure in the meanwhile and her love for tennis, which is unquestionably aided by her well being.
Should you really feel good in your physique and really feel assured, every thing adjustments. She had two nice preliminary video games at Nottingham and Eastbourne and carried out very well, so these are each nice indicators for her sport and I am excited to see her stroll out on heart court docket.
Ekaterina Alexandrova is a superb batsman. You already know you are going to pace up the racket and I feel Emma actually likes that. A slugger versus a slugger typically looks like a greater rhythm, so that you get lots of flat hits, however on the identical time you don’t have anything to lose.
The mentality stays the identical, regardless of who the opponent is, that is the primary spherical of a Grand Slam.
It means quite a bit to each gamers and she or he may have the help of the gang. She’ll have somewhat free swing, fingers crossed.
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Cameron Norrie and Raducanu reveal what their very best days away from tennis would appear to be!
What about Goff’s possibilities?
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Anne Kosavon and Colin Fleming debate whether or not Coco Gauff ought to be a part of Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina in girls’s tennis semi-finals
I don’t assume Coco is caught previously. She’s not going to wish to lose the primary spherical, however on the identical time I feel she’s all the time wanting ahead to see what she will enhance on in her sport and get higher on the court docket each time she goes on the court docket, and that is why she’s Probably the most thrilling gamers within the girls’s sport.
She had an ideal perspective and an ideal workforce round her, so Coco was a powerful contender in each match she entered and has been successful on the U.S. Open ever since.
In my view, she’s nearly a veteran now as a result of she’s been round for thus lengthy and has a lot expertise, however she’s nonetheless such a younger participant and has quite a bit to enhance on.
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A glance again at Gauff’s first main victory on the U.S. Open
Is the boys’s draw open this yr?
Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and Yannik Sinner all bullish on probabilities of successful Wimbledon
I feel the boys’s draw is a bit more open. I can most likely consider 4 or 5 individuals who I feel are doing an ideal job. Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic – to me, if he would not really feel good or wholesome, he isn’t going to play.
He received so many occasions in his life that he solely competed in tournaments when he had an opportunity to win. I’d undoubtedly put him in that group, together with perhaps Alexander Zverev.
Regardless, there are some adjustments to the guard now, and all of those names we have heard over the previous few years are amongst them.
Alcaraz have to be feeling good about his possibilities, proper?
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Highlights from Alcaraz’s Indian Wells ultimate win over Daniil Medvedev
Because the defending champion, it’s important to really feel good and I beloved the custom of final yr’s champion opening on Middle Court docket, as did Matata Vondrousova on Tuesday. That is one other particular ingredient.
Every part about this membership is particular to me and I really like its custom. It is a bit dizzying for Middle Court docket tickets and all of the motion.
You by no means know the way somebody goes to be the defending champion, however he dealt with the stress properly and received the French Open and he have to be feeling good about his tennis.
Sinner not good at grass?
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World No. 1 Sinner beats Hubert Hekatz to win his first grass-court ATP Tour title forward of Wimbledon
I all the time discover it humorous that individuals will say “Sinner would not do properly on grass” when he would not have grass as his favourite floor. He made it to the semifinals final yr, however I feel his confidence and psychological perception within the sport is quite a bit completely different this yr.
He appears to be the favourite each sport and he appears to be very humble about it and takes it in stride, which is the best way he goes about his enterprise.
He got here right here early to begin coaching final week and appeared to be in good condition. He has most likely the cleanest strokes on tour, and he hits them fantastically. He is the No. 1 seed for a purpose.
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