British tennis star and US Open champion Emma Raducanu insists there are positives to take from her French Open debut regardless of a second-round defeat.
Raducanu, 19, appeared in advantageous kind as she took the primary set in opposition to Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3.
However Belarussian Sasnovich dominated the subsequent two units, limiting Raducanu to simply two extra video games and knocking her out of the second Grand Slam of the 12 months.
Raducanu, who rose to fame finally 12 months’s US Open, has misplaced within the second spherical in her two Grand Slams because the beautiful win in New York.
‘I assumed that it was a reasonably lengthy match, fairly bodily as properly. I feel my opponent performed fairly properly all through, and didn’t make any errors,’ Raducanu mentioned after her Paris exit.
‘However yeah, I feel that it was an extended match for me, however the entire clay season has been fairly constructive total, I'd say.’
Raducanu mentioned she anticipated to endure first-round defeats in all 4 tournaments she performed main as much as the French Open, however she returned 5 wins from 9 matches from her first season on clay.
‘I feel I positively acquired stronger because the clay season went on,’ she added. ‘It simply takes much more to win the purpose on this floor and for those who hit the ball flat it doesn’t actually try this a lot.
‘I positively learnt when to make use of the form and stuff. I’ve nonetheless acquired fairly an extended technique to go on this floor, however total, I'd say I positively had a very good first expertise on the clay. I feel I can positively enhance too.’
Raducanu insists her first full season on the WTA tour will probably be a studying expertise and says creating on and off the court docket is extra necessary than outcomes.
‘I feel this 12 months was at all times going to be difficult for me to regulate, discover my toes,’ Raducanu mentioned. ‘It’s going to be much more acquainted this time round.
‘I really feel like within the final 12 months I've positively grown so much. On and off the court docket I really feel like I've most likely improved how a lot I struggle.
‘I feel that’s one in all my greatest strengths and much more so this 12 months, and it’s positively opened my eyes to simply how good everyone seems to be and the way a lot depth there's within the recreation.
‘I feel that it has been a reasonably constructive 12 months simply because I've learnt a lot, and I feel that the quantity of studying that I've accomplished outweighs any form of consequence, to be sincere.’
Raducanu will now flip her attentions to the grass-court season and a return to Wimbledon, the place she reached the fourth spherical final summer season earlier than retiring resulting from medical causes.
‘It’s going to be very nice to go house and play on house turf, on the house grass,’ she added.
‘It will be a bit bit unusual to start with, as a result of I've performed on clay court docket for therefore lengthy now, I really feel prefer it’s been weeks.
‘I’m actually wanting ahead to taking part in in entrance of the followers at house, and simply to get all that help. Final 12 months I skilled a bit style of it, however I really feel like this 12 months could be much more. I’m simply actually wanting ahead to the environment that’s going to be round.’
Raducanu’s defeat means there aren't any British ladies left within the singles draw, with Heather Watson and Harriet Dart shedding within the first spherical.
In higher information for the Brits, Cameron Norrie turned the primary British singles participant to succeed in this 12 months’s third spherical when he beat Australia’s Jason Kubler in straight units.
British quantity two Dan Evans, 32, will look to affix Norrie within the subsequent spherical when he faces Sweden’s Mikael Ymer on Thursday.
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