Emma Raducanu reveals she’s reading Jane Austen and going on ‘solo walks and solo coffee dates’ to combat loneliness

EMMA RADUCANU has turned to Jane Austen and “solo walks and solo java dates” arsenic she embraces the “lonely” beingness connected the tennis tour.

The Brit faces 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova connected Monday successful the archetypal circular of the Abu Dhabi Open.

This is her 2nd tourney pursuing a split from manager Nick Cavaday, who is spending much clip successful the UK owed to health reasons.

Raducanu, 22, has travelled to the Middle East with caller fittingness trainer Yutaka Nakamura and volition instrumentality her clip connected choosing a replacement for Cavaday.

But she is utilizing her downtime to work immoderate classical English literature, having enjoyed the celebrated author’s Pride and Prejudice publication during her GSCE exams.

The ex-US Open champion said: “I’m speechmaking Emma but speechmaking it for pleasure.

“It’s not the easiest to work sometimes, but I deliberation it’s a large story. And of course, with the name, I conscionable had to spell for it.”

Raducanu – who missed a ample portion of past play owed to wounded – said: “I conscionable had a batch of clip to deliberation and bespeak successful that period.

“I deliberation I conscionable had to marque immoderate truly hard decisions.

“Some decisions that internally, you benignant of toil with, you cognize emotionally you’re attached to.

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“And that I wasn’t needfully being capable to bash the champion things for myself.

“Like I wouldn’t person loads of clip to work similar I americium now, walk a batch of clip alone.

“And I deliberation that’s conscionable thing that I’ve started doing a batch much of.

“This year, I’ve gone connected loads of solo walks, solo java dates and conscionable person a batch of clip to benignant of look wrong and look internally.

“I’ve been enjoying it truthful far, adjacent though it’s not needfully the easiest happening to do, particularly erstwhile the circuit is rather a lonely place.”

Raducanu – who was smashed successful consecutive sets by aggregate Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek astatine the Australian Open – is moving temporarily with an aged coach, Roman Kelecic, who is based successful UAE.

She told the National: “He travelled with maine erstwhile I was similar 14,15, successful the inferior ITFs.

“We went to each the glamorous places unneurotic erstwhile we were younger successful the juniors.

“And we haven’t honestly seen each different successful truthful galore years.

“But he’s based retired of Dubai, and I deliberation successful this situation, I wanted to spot him anyway, to drawback up.

“So I texted him to drawback up, and present he’s connected court with me, truthful he’s going to assistance maine retired this week.

“Nick is simply a large person. He’s idiosyncratic I’ve known since I was a young girl, and helium coached maine before, truthful I deliberation we were moving truly good together.

“Unfortunately, helium had to prioritise his health, which I wholly understand, and I enactment him, and I conscionable privation him the speediest of recoveries.”