'It's brutal' - Chris Evert defends 'superstar' Emma Raducanu from 'relentless' English tabloids

Tennis legend Chris Evert has said Emma Raducanu is «handling everything beautifully» despite the pressure and expectation she believes is being heaped on her. Nick Kyrgios was the latest player to back the 2021 US Open champion following criticism of her recent form from former stars on the WTA tour and the media. Ad/> Since winning the Grand Slam, which saw her jump up to being the No.

1 female British player in the WTA rankings, Raducanu has struggled for form, but even she has felt the need to defend herself. ATP Houston'My game actually suits clay' — Kyrgios breaks 1055-day drought on surface in styleAN HOUR AGO «Maybe you just see on the news or on social media me signing this or that deal, and I feel like it’s quite misleading because I’m doing five, six hours a day [of training]. I’m at the club for 12 hours a day,» she said.

«But I throw out one post in the car on the way to practice and all of a sudden it’s ‘I don’t focus on tennis’. I think that it is unfair but it’s something I have learned to deal with and become a bit more insensitive to the outside noise. »At the end of the day, I feel like my days [with sponsors] are pretty limited.

I’m not doing crazy days. I’m doing three, four days every quarter, so it’s really not that much." Evert has thrown her support behind the Brit and emphasised just how tough it is for her to continue focusing on her tennis in the face of such media intrusion and pressure from the outside. «To be a superstar in England is like the toughest thing ever for a player,» Evert told Eurosport.