Emma Raducanu has to remind herself she needed a mobility scooter this time last year as she prepares for her latest career reboot.
“So I had a cast on one hand – I’d timed it so I didn’t have two casts at the same time, obviously – a splint on the other and my ankle was also pretty much immobilised, in a splint and stitches. “You get so caught up in your own world that you want more and more and more. But a year ago I was on a scooter scooting around and I didn’t know – there was an element of doubt.“To be healthy and to be here, I need to cherish it. So thanks for reminding me to do that.
Raducanu, then only 18, made it to the fourth round at SW19 before stunning the world two months later by winning the US Open as a qualifier – one of the biggest sporting shocks of all time.