{"id":17080,"date":"2021-07-07T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T03:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121475"},"modified":"2021-07-07T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T03:48:52","slug":"andy-murray-defends-emma-raducanu-as-critics-said-pressure-for-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/andy-murray-defends-emma-raducanu-as-critics-said-pressure-for-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray defends Emma Raducanu as critics said pressure for withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray came in defence for the British teenager Emma Raducanu who had withdrawn from Wimbledon and the reason was said that she couldn\u2019t handle the pressure of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Think this is a very harsh take on the situation Piers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rGuWC5ScDT\">https:\/\/t.co\/rGuWC5ScDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1412382137488187392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Emma Raducanu who debuted in the championship was forced to retire after her remarkable performances till the fourth round. She suffered discomfort and difficulty to breathe during her clash against Ajla Tomljanobic of Australia in the second set. Raducanu went for medical awareness but couldn\u2019t return to the court to continue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to medical reasons, Emma Raducanu has retired from this match \u2013 but what an incredible run to the fourth round it was \ud83d\udc9a \ud83d\udc9c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fmp6M0twDw\">pic.twitter.com\/fmp6M0twDw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1412143524879941634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the first set, after some super intense rallies, I started to breathe heavily and felt dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>The medical team advised me not to continue and although it felt like the hardest thing in the world not to be able to finish my Wimbledon on the court, it was not well enough to carry on,\u201d said Raducanu via Twitter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thank you for the support\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C47TTvOQK9\">pic.twitter.com\/C47TTvOQK9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emma Raducanu (@EmmaRaducanu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaRaducanu\/status\/1412423562577780746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McEnroe who has won the Wimbledon championship twice had indicated on BBC that the occasion \u201cgot a little bit too much\u201d for Raducanu and matched her anxiety to Naomi Osaka\u2019s mental health struggles who had retired from the French Open after her first round.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray came in defence and said, McEnroe, judged the teen without understanding the reason behind her breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think some of what he said was fair yes.. however the timing of it was a bit off considering nobody had any clue what her issue was injury\/illness\/breathings issues etc at the time of his comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1412384229602824194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Pietersen, a former cricketer from England said that talent is something else. Dealing with pressure, bad form and negative media are hard but this is what sport is all about to which Murray replied that the case with Raducanu was different.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No question mental toughness can be what separates the best in sport but surely both of you aren\u2019t judging her mental toughness on yesterday\u2019s match?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/83tLG5F9ca\">https:\/\/t.co\/83tLG5F9ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1412382541512851458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former cricketer Pietersen later tweeted that he didn\u2019t understand the context and then the whole conversation took a different turn.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KP24\/status\/1412393907317526531?s=19<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KP24\/status\/1412397179499683844?s=19<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray came in defence for the British teenager Emma Raducanu who had withdrawn from Wimbledon and the reason was\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1988,326,456,2097,1331,202,250],"class_list":["post-17080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-all-england-club","tag-andy-murray","tag-cricketer","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-kevin-pietersen","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}