{"id":29302,"date":"2025-07-29T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29302\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:14:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-is-certain-novak-djokovic-is-the-tennis-goat-but-another-star-is-her-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29302\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu is certain Novak Djokovic is the tennis &#8216;GOAT&#8217;, but another star is her &#8216;favourite&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emma Raducanu chimed in on the much-talked-about debate between Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer during an interview in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/tennis\/emma-raducanu-is-replicating-her-2021-us-open-triumph-form-in-washington-says-former-top-10-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu is in hot form heading into the US Open<\/a> after two semi-final spots in the singles and doubles of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/topics\/Washington-Open\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Open<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The British No. 1 heads into the Canadian Open with a genuine chance of getting a seed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/topics\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/tennis\/emma-raducanu-just-reached-an-incredible-milestone-shes-never-previously-achieved-in-her-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu keeps improving on her 2024 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, she was defiant that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/topics\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> was the tennis \u2018GOAT\u2019 \u2013 but there\u2019s another star she\u2019d much rather watch. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2160476408-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Raducanu celebrating defeating Elise Mertens at Wimbledon 2025\" class=\"wp-image-539028\" \/>Photo by Francois Nel\/Getty ImagesEmma Raducanu picked Roger Federer as \u2018favourite to watch\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/topics\/emma-raducanu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu<\/a> believes the numbers don\u2019t lie when it comes to the tennis \u2018GOAT\u2019, but also admitted Djokovic wasn\u2019t her \u2018favourite\u2019 star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, the tennis GOAT is\u00a0Novak Djokovic\u00a0for pure, just repeatable quality,\u201d said Raducanu in an interview with Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, the British No. 1 revealed she\u2019d much rather watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/topics\/roger-federer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> on the court than the 24-time Grand Slam champion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my favourite to watch is\u00a0Roger Federer,\u201d the 2021 US Open champion revealed in the Sky Sports\u2019 Editions interviews. <\/p>\n<p>Raducanu listed several of Federer\u2019s attributes to back up her claim. \u201cHe resembles grace, class, elegance, timelessness \u2014 all of the above,\u201d said the star. <\/p>\n<p>Emma Raducanu also named her favourite female tennis star <\/p>\n<p>Raducanu has also mentioned Chinese tennis star Li Na as one of her favourite players to watch growing up. <\/p>\n<p>The British star received the Laureus Award for \u2018Breakthrough of the Year\u2019 after her win at the US Open in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Raducanu was given the award by Na, and she thanked the star at the ceremony in Mandarin. \u201cLi Na, you are my favourite tennis star. I would like to say thank you,\u201d said Raducanu. <\/p>\n<p>Raducanu is currently appearing at the Canadian Open as she looks to continue her fine form over the summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu chimed in on the much-talked-about debate between Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,21345,3592,965,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-29302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-emma-raducanu","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-roger-federer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}