The US Open champion is preparing to face Serena Williams, while fending off familiar questions over her resilience
fielded questions before her debut at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, a wry smile slowly spread across her face and she jokingly held her head in her hands. It is a familiar sight in her press conferences these days as the same question, phrased differently and often by local journalists, has followed her on every stop of the tour: are you feeling the pressure?
The next step of that journey will be unforgettable. On Monday night, the first feature match of this year’s tournament, she will step out on to the court to face Raducanu has not known tennis without Serena as the transcendent, towering presence over the sport that she has been for the past two decades. Williams was ranked No 1 with four grand-slam titles and already a hall‑of‑fame career when Raducanu was born.
“I remember the highlight of my year was when I was young, at a tennis club, my first coach would take me and one other boy to Wimbledon on my day out. We’d take the tram there. We got on to Centre Court somehow and we watched her annihilate someone one and one. That was just really cool to see her live. That day out with my first coach, I was so excited for the day. I think that was a really special time in my life, a memory that I’ll always have.
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