{"id":109469,"date":"2025-09-02T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:01:06","slug":"us-open-live-emma-raducanu-ignored-as-novak-djokovic-retirement-theory-teased-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109469\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open LIVE: Emma Raducanu ignored as Novak Djokovic retirement theory teased | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McEnroe has labelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/carlos-alcaraz\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> as a cut above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/roger-federer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/novak-djokovic\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/rafael-nadal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> at the age of 22.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has enjoyed an incredible career in tennis to date at such a young age, boasting five Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/carlos-alcaraz\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> is my favourite player to watch,\u201d McEnroe explained. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s mainly because he&#8217;s willing to do anything and try anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s not content to just play from the baseline. A lot of players have been playing like that for a long time, and it&#8217;s become a bit repetitive, with the same style of play, and then there were the big serves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they tried to change that at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/wimbledon\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>, to slow down the court so that the serve wasn&#8217;t so important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, the courts here at the US Open are quite fast, and I think that makes them more interesting, because players have to be more comfortable coming to the net. [Jannik] Sinner has worked hard on that. Their rivalry is obviously incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McEnroe has labelled Carlos Alcaraz as a cut above Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[870,6962,811,6766,101,118,12700,56,54,55,7259],"class_list":{"0":"post-109469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-section","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}