As Emma Raducanu plots a way backmost to the pinnacle of tennis, the Briton has been taking inspiration from Andre Agassi's 2009 autobiography.
Five years person passed since Raducanu's singular US Open triumph, erstwhile astatine the property of 18 she became the archetypal qualifier successful the Open epoch to triumph a Grand Slam.
American Agassi was a teenage prodigy himself and aboriginal claimed the archetypal of his 8 large singles titles astatine Wimbledon successful 1992 aged 22.
But betwixt the highest years of his career, helium had to flooded a challenging play erstwhile helium went 4 years without a large and dropped to 141st successful the satellite rankings.
"I was particularly intrigued by the transition wherever helium got retired of his slump successful the precocious 1990s by creating his ain grooming regimen and uncovering his mode backmost to the top," Raducanu told Uniqlo.
"It speaks successful extent astir his aboriginal successes and the lows helium reached, possibly arsenic a effect of them.
"A batch of it was truthful relatable."
Agassi said his anticipation was for his experiences to assistance different players going done akin periods successful their ain careers.
"It's fantastic to perceive that anybody tin relate," Agassi told BBC Breakfast.
"It was virtually the anticipation that if 1 idiosyncratic work it and it gave them hope, immoderate tools to recognize that they're not alone, they tin fig it retired and get to a healthier spot without having to nonstop their frustrations astatine the crippled of tennis, past it was a occurrence for me.
"So, proceeding that 17 years aboriginal it tin inactive interaction somebody, particularly successful this game, it does marque maine consciousness good."
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