Emma Raducanu: US Open champion attempting to maintain grounded forward of Indian Wells debut

“I do not actually wish to change something,” mentioned Emma Raducanu. “What received me thus far just isn’t considering something in another way, so if I put extra ideas in my head then that may simply create an issue I feel. I am simply going to maintain going about my enterprise and staying the identical.”

Emma Raducanu could be the title on everybody’s lips at Indian Wells however the US Open champion vowed to not put strain on herself as she prepares to return to motion.

The 18-year-old’s unbelievable triumph in New York catapulted her from younger hopeful to one of many greatest names in girls’s tennis and there shall be an enormous quantity of consideration when she performs her first match for the reason that Flushing Meadows remaining on the BNP Paribas Open later this week.

Because the seventeenth seed, Raducanu has a bye within the first spherical, so her opening match shall be towards both fellow teenager Maria Camila Osorio Serrano from Colombia or Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

“I am very excited to be right here,” mentioned Raducanu, who now has greater than two million Instagram followers, at her pre- match press convention.

“It is my first time enjoying in Indian Wells, and it is a ravishing place. I simply cannot wait to get began. I really like the services, every thing is simply so good to be round.

Emma Raducanu was among the many stars on the pink carpet on the premiere of the newest James Bond movie, ‘No Time to Die’, earlier than flying out to California

“I do not actually wish to change something. What received me thus far just isn’t considering something in another way so if I put extra ideas in my head then that may simply create an issue I feel. I am simply going to maintain going about my enterprise and staying the identical.

“It has been a really cool three weeks. I received to expertise some nice issues that I most likely by no means would have gotten to do earlier than however after that I simply went straight again to coaching and specializing in this competitors and the upcoming ones that I’ve received lined up.”

Raducanu’s most up-to-date journey down a pink carpet was on the premiere of the brand new James Bond movie No Time To Die previous to flying out to California, however the teenager has made it clear the tennis court docket is the place she most needs to be.

British No 1 Raducanu defeated Leylah Fernandez in September to win the US Open

She is with out a everlasting coach having determined to not flip her short-term association with Andrew Richardson, who helped her elevate the title in New York, into something everlasting.

Raducanu is working at Indian Wells with former British primary Jeremy Bates, however he primarily coaches Katie Boulter alongside a job as nationwide girls’s coach for the Garden Tennis Affiliation.

{The teenager} insisted she wouldn’t be involved by going it alone for the remainder of the season, having additionally signed as much as play tournaments in Moscow, Romania and Austria over the subsequent few weeks.

“Jeremy is a part of girls’s tennis on the LTA so whereas he is right here he is serving to me out,” she mentioned. “However going forwards I am simply going to attend and discover the precise particular person, I am not going to hurry into something. I wish to ensure I make the precise resolution.

“Regardless that I am fairly younger I’ve received a whole lot of expertise banked and on the finish of the day you are on the market by yourself and you need to be your personal coach on the court docket, so I am fairly comfy.”

Raducanu – pictured enjoying tennis with Kate Middleton – has skilled a fast rise since successful the US Open

Victory in her first match may see Raducanu come up towards one in all her idols in Romanian two-time grand slam champion Simona Halep.

The circumstances at Indian Wells shall be very totally different to these in New York, although, with the dry desert air making the ball troublesome to manage.

“The air may be very dry so it may be robust bodily and it is fairly scorching in the intervening time,” mentioned Raducanu.

“The courts are slower and excessive bouncing so it is most likely going to be lengthy rallies, and the balls get fairly fluffy fairly rapidly. I am certain it may be bodily in all the matches so it is only a matter of attempting to get in as finest form as attainable and preserve match and wholesome.”

The match is likely one of the greatest on the WTA and ATP Excursions and is being held for the primary time since March 2019 having been cancelled final 12 months after which postponed from this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic.