{"id":386103,"date":"2026-01-23T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:14:09","slug":"andy-roddick-blown-away-by-emma-raducanu-comments-as-he-issues-lecture-after-australian-open-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386103\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick blown away by Emma Raducanu comments as he issues lecture after Australian Open loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Roddick has urged Emma Raducanu to approach tennis as a profession following her disappointing second-round elimination at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

The British No 1, seeded 28th in Melbourne, fell to Anastasia Potapova in a result that extends her underwhelming Grand Slam record since capturing the US Open title in 2021.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his Served podcast, the former American champion expressed frustration with Raducanu’s stated intention to reduce her playing schedule this year.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging her talent, Roddick said: “I love Raducanu, I think she’s wildly intelligent, her game is obviously fantastic.”<\/p>\n

However, he was clear that admiration alone would not suffice, adding that the defeat was not entirely unexpected given Potapova’s capabilities.<\/p>\n

Roddick took particular issue with comments Raducanu made during the off-season about wanting a lighter schedule.<\/p>\n

“I read stuff in the off-season, [her] saying, ‘I want to play a little less this year.’ Play less? You’re a Grand Slam champion who’s [ranked] 30 in the world, you’ve got to play more,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Andy Roddick has urged Emma Raducanu to approach tennis as a profession following her disappointing second-round elimination at the Australian Open<\/p>\n

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The American was emphatic that the 2021 US Open champion needed greater court time, stating: “I want her to want to play more.<\/p>\n

“You don’t know all of it but when you have an off-season to train, you should be coming in pretty healthy.”<\/p>\n

He pointed out that half a decade has elapsed since her Flushing Meadows triumph without Raducanu completing a full campaign. <\/p>\n

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“It’s been five years since the [US] Open [win]. At some point we’re going to have to get to it being a job,” Roddick concluded.<\/p>\n

Raducanu has defended her approach, citing health and wellbeing as the primary factors behind her scheduling decisions.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the BBC last month, she explained: “I would say next year I hope to play less than I did this year.”<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old outlined her strategy for maintaining physical condition, emphasising the importance of integrating fitness work into her daily training rather than treating it as separate sessions.<\/p>\n

“You just have to try and drip feed as much as you can in for the overall health of your body, little and often, I think is the biggest thing that’s helped,” she said.<\/p>\n

Her 2025 season was cut short prematurely due to ongoing injury and fitness concerns that have repeatedly disrupted her career.<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu indicated she wouldn’t return to the court immediately after her Australian Open exit<\/p>\n

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Following her Melbourne exit, Raducanu indicated she would take time to assess her game upon returning home.<\/p>\n

She acknowledged that her partnership with coach Francisco Roig, who joined her team last summer, has yet to produce the desired results on court.<\/p>\n

“I definitely want to feel better on certain shots before I start playing again,” she said, adding that she intended to review footage of her performances to identify areas for improvement.<\/p>\n

The British player admitted there was a disconnect between her current form and her aspirations.<\/p>\n

“I want to be playing a different way, and I think the misalignment with how I’m playing right now and how I want to be playing is something that I just want to work on,” Raducanu explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick has urged Emma Raducanu to approach tennis as a profession following her disappointing second-round elimination at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[50,2331,217,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-news","tag-sgg","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386103","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=386103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}