Bringing this back up.ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:34 pm
One of the first things I would do with Emma Radacanu is ditch every single promotional appearance not tied to a specific tournament for the rest of the year and just do #Tennis. But she is obviously not only uncoachable but unmanageable.
Her comments in this piece are a disservice to fans who expect athletes to be prepared to play, even marginally so. How can you not be "into it" for a WTA1000 when the season has only just started and the grind has hardly begun? It's the tournament scheduling that's the problem and not her many promotional appearances all over the world?
The weekly tournament grind is the foundation of the sport but she seems to prefer the weekly promotional grift.
Roddick interviews her agent this week, who also manages Madison and Ajla, while previously managing Sharapova and Li Na. Was pretty enlightening.
Relevant to this was two things:
Why was different when Emma won versus Maria...
And how Maria scheduled her promotional activities. (Concisely - it was limited to 16 days per year )
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