Emma Raducanu tipped for ‘immediate changes’ after brutal Australian Open defeat to Iga Swiatek

Laura Robson has tipped Emma Raducanu to marque ‘immediate changes’ to her crippled aft her Australian Open exit to Iga Swiatek connected Saturday.

Raducanu impressively reached the 3rd round astatine Melbourne Park this twelvemonth with superb wins implicit 2 players supra her successful the WTA standings.

The unseeded British prima – satellite No.61 – eliminated 26th-seed Ekaterina Alexandrova and followed that up with a triumph implicit satellite No.35 Amanda Anisimova.

A clash with second-seed Swiatek proved to beryllium a measurement excessively far, though, with the Polish five-time Grand Slam victor easily beating Raducanu 6-1 6-0.

Former British No.1 Robson feels it is ‘very clear’ what Raducanu indispensable bash the adjacent clip she steps backmost connected the signifier tribunal arsenic the 2021 US Open champion looks to instrumentality to the satellite apical 10 for the archetypal clip since 2022.

Speaking connected Eurosport, Robson said: ‘Well, the positives were that she was moving well. And, you know, erstwhile she was capable to enactment successful the rally, she was starting to enactment unneurotic immoderate bully points.

‘But the quality for maine was the strength betwixt the 2 of them. Iga played that benignant of lucifer 55 times successful the past twelvemonth and conscionable knows what to bash connected determination connected the much important points. She was conscionable capable to measurement it up different game.

‘And, whereas Emma, who hasn’t played a tourney coming into this lucifer and played 2 precise antithetic opponents successful the archetypal 2 rounds and 2 players who gave her a batch of unforced errors to enactment with. It was the implicit other today.

‘Iga gave her perfectly thing to enactment with, and she’s specified a bully beforehand runner. Even erstwhile she was 6-0 4-0 up it was similar she was playing the archetypal constituent successful the match, basically. So yeah, I can, you know, database of each the things that Swiatek did good due to the fact that to maine she played a tactically cleanable match.

‘She was serving astir exclusively to Emma’s backhand due to the fact that she knows what benignant of shot she tin get connected the positive 1 changeable back. And it was conscionable the aforesaid constituent implicit and implicit and over.

‘So, yeah, I deliberation successful galore ways that volition beryllium a spot of a learning curve for Emma to get backmost to the drafting committee and deliberation like, okay, if I privation to situation these apical players, I request to bid with this intensity, I request to play matches with this strength and this is what she knows already.

‘And you know, she would person wished her mentation for this was a small different, but I deliberation it was, yeah, the existent standout of what was connected amusement today.

‘Well, I deliberation she’ll beryllium the archetypal 1 to accidental that it’s astir getting matches and getting tournaments because, you know, erstwhile you measurement up to this level, Swiatek has played truthful many, you know, 3rd circular matches, immoderate Grand Slams that she’s conscionable comfortable.

‘And that was what was truthful evident from the archetypal portion of the match. The footwork was determination the sharpness was determination each clip she stepped up to the line. And if you’re not utilized to that benignant of bushed and gait and powerfulness coming onto your racket, past it’s precise hard to support up.

‘And passim the match, you benignant of saw Emma measurement backmost down the baseline. She was trying to bash thing different. She was benignant of a metre and a fractional backmost down the baseline astatine 1 point. But erstwhile you springiness Iga that time, it’s it’s precise pugnacious to proceed to crook that constituent around.

‘So yeah, I honestly deliberation that it’s 1 of those matches that you travel distant learning a batch from and you go, okay, this is precise wide what I request to bash and, and you get backmost connected the signifier tribunal and you’re really excited to bash that due to the fact that you tin spot the contiguous changes that you tin have.’

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