PHOTO BY MARTIN KEEP/AFPMELBOURNE: Emma Raducanu says a key lesson from her first Australian Open is that "I've got that fight in me" after the teenager adapted her game and gritted her teeth to play through pain with nasty blisters. "I really enjoy playing the Grand Slams, I think that the takeaway is tough," she said. You know, I did discover elements of my game I didn't know I had before, and I can use that going forward. "And also, I just know that I've got that fight in me, even if I have got, like, one shot, I know that I can pull myself out of deep situations." Raducanu, the first British woman to win a Grand Slam since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977, came into the tournament after contracting Covid-19, but she refused to blame it for her defeat.

Source: Manila Times January 22, 2022 03:35 UTC