Raducanu should hire an expert who understands the female body – Judy Murray

U.S. Open up champion Emma Raducanu wants time to mature physically and the 19-year-outdated must use gals professionals who comprehend the female physique, Judy Murray, a tennis mentor and mother to three-time Grand Slam winner Andy, said.

Raducanu withdrew from upcoming week’s WTA 250 occasion in Birmingham on Wednesday after suffering a “freak injury” at the Nottingham Open up but is hopeful that she will be fit to participate in at Wimbledon.

The British teen shot to stardom in September 2021 when she received the U.S. Open title as a qualifier, getting Britain’s initial female Grand Slam winner considering that Virginia Wade in 1977.

Raducanu has, nevertheless, endured a string of health difficulties given that successful her maiden Grand Slam title and was knocked out in the second round of the French Open very last thirty day period.

“What is actually getting ever more distinct is that Raducanu’s system needs time to experienced,” Murray wrote in a column for The Telegraph.

“If you strip away the point she was catapulted into this remarkable success adhering to her U.S. Open up triumph last September, she is no diverse to any other young participant in the perception that her human body requires time to fill out, turn out to be more sturdy and resilient.

“It can be a method that merely does not come about right away, particularly when the actual physical needs on her physique are at an all-time higher,” Murray explained, adding that her son Andy endured from cramping though moving up from the junior circuit to the ATP.

Murray also urged Raducanu to make much more use of female expertise in getting care of her health, highlighting the case in point of Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen who opened up about how menstrual cramps derailed her run at the French Open up.

“How lots of of today’s leading woman players, I surprise, are harnessing the peaks and troughs of their cycle and tailoring it to their education and overall performance?” Murray claimed.

“How many could really feel additional empowered by investing in a women’s health and fitness physio or specialist and generating their entourage that bit extra female-centric?”

“… the menstrual cycle and its affect on athletic efficiency is an area of sports activities science that has been woefully neglected and only now are we starting to comprehend its effect on an athlete, both psychologically and physically.”