EMMA NEEDS POWER MOVE

Croft suggests Raducanu train with ‘blokes’ to tame foes

- BY NEIL McLEMAN

all-time great. She said: “I once had the privilege of training with Steffi Graf and she did all of her training with blokes - everything was coming at her so fast, hard and flat. I don't know how much Raducanu trains with men but when you see her not coping with the pace of a shot, it makes me think that all of her training has to be done with power players”

TRAINING with “blokes” may be Emma Raducanu's path to taming the power of the top female stars, so says a former British No.1.

The current top Brit lost in just 62 minutes to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina at the US Open, exiting at the third-round stage 6-1 6-2.

World No.34 Raducanu admitted she could not handle the “clean and heavy” hitting of the tenth best player on the womens circuit.