Agassi's advice to Raducanu: "She has to learn"

Andrés Tomás Rico - 23 Sep 2026 | 17:02
WTA ATP Andre Agassi Emma Raducanu

The Briton assured that the autobiography of the former tennis player has helped her in her recovery process, while the American asks her to "focus on giving her best every day."

 

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Agassi's advice to Raducanu: "She needs to learn"

Andre Agassi is one of the great inspirations and references for many current tennis players. And not just because he is one of the greatest legends of the sport or because he has won eight Grand Slams or been number one, but for the way he opened up to the world in his autobiography Open, which is a bestseller and has sold millions of copies. The latest to be impacted by his story is Emma Raducanu.

This was confirmed by the British player in an interview with her sponsor Uniqlo: “I was particularly intrigued by the chapter in which he overcame his slump in the late nineties by creating his own training regimen and finding his way back to the top,” Raducanu said. “He goes in-depth about his early successes and the difficult moments he experienced, perhaps as a result of them. Many things felt very familiar to me,” she confessed.

And the British player was a victim of her greatest success. Winning the 2021 US Open at just 18 years old, paradoxically, did her more harm than good. Expectations grew tremendously for a teenager who was still developing. She wanted to keep winning, but above all, to respond to that pressure. This led her to change coaches frequently, push herself to the limit requiring surgery for injuries in both arms, and end up going almost four years without winning more than three consecutive matches.

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Since 2025, the British player seems to have found more consistency, reaching finals in tournaments and coming close this year to winning the titles of Cluj-Napoca and Queen’s. But her own health has been her greatest enemy. A virus caused her to miss most of the clay court tour, and a stress fracture in her leg made her skip Wimbledon at a key moment. As of today, she continues to recover from her injury and her return is still uncertain.

Agassi advises Raducanu to always give 100%

But after confessing her love for Agassi's book, the American responded in an interview with the BBC. First, he expressed gratitude that his autobiography continues to resonate with so many people: “It's wonderful to know that someone can identify with it. My hope was that if just one person read it and felt hope, with some tools to understand that they are not alone, that they can work it out and get to a healthier state without directing their frustrations towards tennis, then it would have been a success for me. So, to hear that 17 years later it can still have an impact on someone, especially in this sport, makes me feel good.”

And then he advised Raducanu, who still seems to be in a bottomless pit: “I would encourage her to focus on giving her best each day, but not to judge it by the results or think that she has to be at 100% in some way,” pointed out the captain of Team World for the Laver Cup, which this weekend will play a new edition in London.

Andre Agassi concluded with a message to Emma Raducanu: “You have to learn to be 100% of whatever you are doing and feel comfortable with your own identity within that, not with what others say. In my time, I could simply put down the newspaper and not read it. Now it seems that these young people find it harder to avoid it.”
 

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