{"id":528619,"date":"2026-03-17T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528619\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:02:10","slug":"i-understand-pressure-emma-raducanu-is-under-early-success-is-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528619\/","title":{"rendered":"I understand pressure Emma Raducanu is under \u2013 early success is tough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking back now, Bouchard says she felt \u201cI always have to live up to what I\u2019ve done\u201d and it is no doubt a feeling that would resonate with Emma Raducanu who triumphed at the 2021 US Open<\/a> aged just 18. The comparisons are obvious.<\/p>\n

\u201cTennis is interesting because you can peak so early,\u201d Bouchard says, having dashed straight from Heathrow Airport to appear at a New Balance event in west London. \u201cSome of my best years were honestly like [when I was] 19, 20, 21, which is crazy to think about with hindsight because I feel like I was young and dumb two years ago so imagine 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving it [success] at the beginning of my career rather than the tail-end, made me feel this constant pressure every year all the time of, \u2018Will she ever win a slam?\u2019, \u2018Will she ever do what she did before?\u2019 and it\u2019s really hard to get far in a grand slam. Lots of players never do that in their careers, and the ones who do it consistently are the greats like Serena [Williams] or Novak [Djokovic].\u201d<\/p>\n

It is why she can relate to the scrutiny Raducanu has experienced<\/a> since lifting the trophy at Flushing Meadows in 2021, but not going beyond the fourth round of another grand slam. \u201cExactly,\u201d the 32-year-old says when asked about similarities with her career and the Briton\u2019s. \u201c[People think], \u2018When are you going to win another one? Now you\u2019re going to win one a year for the next 10 years\u2019. And it just doesn\u2019t work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking back now, Bouchard says she felt \u201cI always have to live up to what I\u2019ve done\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1701,1079,99,615,428,237703,141692],"class_list":["post-528619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon-tennis","tag-womens-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}