"I just can't believe how young I sound" | Emma Raducanu Same Interview One Year Apart | LTA

I'm most excited to play my first WTA tournament and especially being at home I think it's going to be a great experience and this whole grass season is probably my first my first proper grass season so I'm really excited to just get out there and compete and have a lot of fun. Oh I mean I just can't believe how young I sound. I was so naive I swear. First time I came I mean I remember practicing and it was the first time I was practicing with you know players who are inside 100, inside 200 and I was just you know loving being able to practice at that sort of level because it's something I never really experienced and I was buzzing off of it and I just came off practice here and you know for me it was a really special moment and I definitely after this week where I feel like I was actually very nervous going onto the court just having not played for so long kind of showed that throughout the whole grass season I was playing pretty fearlessly and yeah I was loving it. Oh it's a beauty down the line not for the first time this match. Big differences here right you know I've had a lot of you know conferences and things that I've done and definitely become more experienced I would say in that aspect but I really love the you know the the energy that I'm giving out here I mean it's just like I'm brand new I'm here to play and you know go for it so yeah that's that's definitely an element that throughout the last few months or like earlier on I maybe not didn't have as much but yeah I'm really enjoying it as much just now. Yeah it's great because I'm getting the opportunity to train with a lot of the girls who are top 100 and high ranked and it's great to just see the level and experience that and also see where I compare and I'm honestly feeling really good and confident. Yeah that's why I remember it because that was definitely a bit of an eye-opener for me and it stuck with me but I was really you know it's just funny to see how the perspective changes because you know that for me was was a massive thing and for it to have kind of been you know you're able to practice and play against these players week in week out and and even higher you know then that sort of ranking it's it's been really good for my game and you know this this girl here a year ago would would have 100% loved being able to have done what I did and you know have that sort of level and repeat that. Just keep that sort of energy because and not forget I think it's more of a lesson like this is more of a lesson for me in 2022 because you know this I would have taken 100% all of the experiences I've had and kept this sort of positive motivational outlook and that's yeah it's good for me this. Well I was really confident in practice because I remember I was playing sets with with everyone and I was doing really well winning most of them and but then I don't think I'd actually played a competitive match and also I played on the centre court here and it was like probably the biggest court I played on until then. I think there were about like 12 people watching but I got like stage fright and it's just also funny to to sort of see how much I've changed because I've played like in front of a much bigger stadium before and you know now now looking back I'm like wow you have also developed pretty much. Who would be your three dream dinner guests? I would say Daniel Ricardo he seems like a really funny guy I'm quite into F1 so that's also exciting I'd just love to hear more about it Michael Jordan just so much insight and yeah I'd love to just hear some stories of his and how it was going because I watched the last dance and I think everyone did and I was so inspired after that and the third would probably be Tom Kean from Bloomberg. I think because I did my A-levels in economics. All right pause um no I mean this is this is a good question I think that it's probably stayed the same like I mean I've always sort of looked up to Michael Jordan he's he's still the most you know inspiring sportsman woman to ever sort of exist for me I feel and yeah Tom Kean he is I remember I said in this that he was easy to understand and and I think I remember it was just like I was a bit nervous in front of the camera and that kind of came out because he's not but like what if you get it then it's cool. My dad's had to explain a few times but you know