Raducanu frustrated by racket stress problem in Wimbledon loss to

LONDON (AP)– Emma Raducanu revealed frustration with having to get a couple of her rackets re-strung during her third-round loss to top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon on Friday.The British

player let leads slip in both sets of her 7-6 (6 ), 6-4 loss at Centre Court with the retractable roofing closed.Advertisement “I seemed like the ball was flying.

I had all my rackets strung up fresh for the match, and it simply felt like it was pinging totally different,”Raducanu said.” It might have been a little bit due to the fact that the roofing was on. I sent out a couple rackets to be re-strung.

“But it takes, like, 20 minutes by the time they turn it over. Still, it was a bit challenging. So I’m disappointed with that part maybe, little details. But I don’t believe I might have made different options. I believe I ought to have just performed much better.”

Sabalenka agreed “the balls were flying more,” she believed, due to the fact that of higher humidity with the roof closed.The three-time Grand Slam champion stated her team generally has additional rackets ready.Advertisement”They constantly have like 2 extra rackets with the greater tension and two extra rackets with lower stress. They prepare it. You don’t need to wait on another racket, “Sabalenka said.Sabalenka said she lost in the 2023 French Open semifinals to Karolina Muchova” since I didn’t have racket”with the right tension. “We weren’t prepared. I didn’t have an ideal tension. I needed to play with a lower stress. I didn’t manage the ball

, didn’t feel well,” she said.”After that experience, “she continued,”we learned it’s four extra rackets in my group’s bag simply in case.

You never know. You can get up and feel great with one tension. Another day you get up and you do not feel at all. You got to be prepared.”___ AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis