Victoria Azarenka and Simon Jordan discuss the UK's reaction to Emma Raducanu 🎾 | Up Front

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@lanarkorras4411 5 месяцев назад

Love her no-bs attitude, especially about a pointless (because impossible) prediction another journalist was trying to push her into. She's absolutely right in her response, without being rude as well. So, thumbs up!

@iamls360sterriker9 5 месяцев назад

Raducanu did something that literally nobody in tennis has done before, something that one might have thought required divine intervention to be true: Winning a grandslam title having had to qualify (3 matches) and then win 7 matches against the world's best, without dropping a set. You can't catch that kind of lightning in a bottle. It was random, a complete fluke by all accounts. She will be in the sporting annals forever because of it. The truth is that we still do not know what kind of player she will become. When she has played well since winning the Open she has looked very good, certainly top 20 level. She will need time to find consistent form and fitness. There is still a question about her being injury prone and the firing/hiring of coaches doesn't exactly scream stability. Just let her play and accept that her US Open win was something or a sporting miracle

@gaskellr44 5 месяцев назад

She said she has always chopped and changed coach wise, so we know from her experience that it's not a hindrance. Injury prone, well she said she has had no reaction to her wrist ops from her last 3 matches, so if she is thinking positive about going forward, I think we should too.

@SuperMatyoO 5 месяцев назад

Same as Bianca Andreescu and some other players, that once were great and then vanished all of a sudden without any intelligible reasons other than some injuries. All those downfalls of tennis players remain a mystery to me. Bianca was like Iga Swiatek the year she won the USO : she was unbeatable, she was the real number one player. And then, nowhere to be seen. She never managed to come back to her level. How comes that ?

@gaskellr44 5 месяцев назад

it can happen, I have seen her since but she has mostly been mixing it at 3rd and 4th rnd at some majors, but before her US Open win, she had already won Indian Wells and the other Masters equivellent title Canadian Open, so it looks like at the mo, her open win was a bit of a one off like Rads, but she is only 23, so who knows what both will do going forwards.@@SuperMatyoO

@augustbruce 5 месяцев назад

She did not beat anyone in the top 20 on her way to that win----very overrated and very fortunate.

@iamls360sterriker9 5 месяцев назад

@@augustbruce pretty sure Bencic and Sakkari were top 20, but I know what you mean lol

@RD-dl9ms 5 месяцев назад

She's already done the UK proud. Whatever she does now is a bonus. As long as she's happy and enjoying her tennis.

@yaofaust89 5 месяцев назад

Sure, Emma has brought the biggest achievement of woman tennis to UK for 47 years. She doesn’t owe UK tennis and fans. I wish to see she is happy win or lose, play tennis or do other things

@Yogi22727 5 месяцев назад

She is talented and Canada can be proud of her because she is not a true Brit and she never will be!

@Yogi22727 5 месяцев назад

Its a shame she is not a true Brit!@@yaofaust89

@yaofaust89 5 месяцев назад

@@Yogi22727 do you mean so-called true brit no grand slam title for half century is a true shame

@Yogi22727 5 месяцев назад

I like the girl and admire her talent but her birth certificate says Canadian. Just like Boris Johnsons says Upstate New York, USA.@@yaofaust89

@earlcabbel5523 5 месяцев назад

Victoria Azarenka is such a down to earth person who appears to me to have a big heart.

@MrBjorn6 5 месяцев назад

I sat next to her on a plane from Sydney to LA. She was really down to earth and nice 👍

@earlcabbel5523 5 месяцев назад

@@MrBjorn6 Thank you. I’ve been a fan of her for years. She was a big time player years ago.

@MrBjorn6 5 месяцев назад

@@earlcabbel5523 She's still a big time player making Majors finals and Semifinals

@earlcabbel5523 5 месяцев назад

@@MrBjorn6 I agree!

@kevingilhooley2064 5 месяцев назад

She's a great player that's for sure..and I like her....I just wish she wouldn't howl like a banshee after every shot.

@rickisunak 5 месяцев назад

Raducanu really plays to the crowd when she's on it - I hope we continue to support her regardless. She achieved something absolutely ridiculous.

@cliffsharp914 5 месяцев назад

Another interviewer who just cannot allow their guest to answer without interrupting and/or trying to finish sentences for them. Let her talk.

@paulmorris9605 5 месяцев назад

jordan is so overrated

@nelsonluisfreire8969 5 месяцев назад

When I first watched Emma playing the UsOpen, I remember being amazed by the quality of the shots, the movements, and the fearless attitude towards playing tennis for a total "novice" and not famous player. More astonishing was how she manage to keep that attitude throughout the tournament. But then reality did impact her. She was overwhelmed by the world's reaction to her performance. Unfortunately she could not cope with that situation. Frankly, very few could. And her game dropped a lot. But the potential is still there. She will have to find a new mindset. That one is not repeatable. I hope she does

@sadie513 5 месяцев назад

Well said. I hope she continues to play and gain more experience.

@KCNwokoye 5 месяцев назад

Thoughtful conversation. Vika is awesome!

@plp666 5 месяцев назад

Love this, really honest from Vika. So cool that Emma reached out before she won the USO.?McEnroe was harsh but he saw the vulnerability in Emma when she withdrew from the Wimbledon match: I hope Emma makes a great comeback this year. She’s very talented

@wonton120 5 месяцев назад

No matter what, it's so great to see Emma play again.

@michaelnextdoor8726 5 месяцев назад

People over did the attention in UK. Impacted her development. too much expectation

@hirsch4155 5 месяцев назад

This is a great interview combo

@simonballard6413 5 месяцев назад

Vika is marvellous. Astute and obviously an extremely good person. She handled this interview very well indeed. I have always admired her.

@rayzworldz 5 месяцев назад

Totally agree for not getting pulled into providing a quote out of context

@chrisjames1905 5 месяцев назад

Let's be realistic here. If you opened your Gmail, and there was an email from Porsche saying: "we'd like to give you millions of dollars and loads of free Porsches. All you have to do is say that you like Porsche every so often, and get shown around some events that we're doing, during which everyone will blow smoke up your arse", you wouldn't say: "oh no, I'm concerned about how that will be perceived by Simon Jordan. I can't possibly accept". You'd fucking snap their hand off, like any normal person would, like the deeply hypocritical, money and status-obsessed Simon Jordan would. Anyone who claims otherwise is utterly ridiculous.

@kevingilhooley2064 5 месяцев назад

Totally agree..Emma got what she deserved,fame and fortune... she's no different to other players who make the interviewer wait after a match, because the have to put on their Patek or Rolex watch to satisfy their sponsors.

@yaofaust89 5 месяцев назад

Emma deserve much more sponsors considering the achievement she won for UK and world tennis. She attracted more people to tennis than any players active duty

@Tiny_beggar 5 месяцев назад

Typical that the older male has certain views on what Emma did post USO win. Really archaic views

@sadie513 5 месяцев назад

Love Vika for this, such thoughful words. Nobody can predict the future. Nobody knows how Emma actually feels and how much pressure she is facing. We can all just watch and see.

@AlastairBarker 5 месяцев назад

Where is the entire thing?

@jackburgess8579 5 месяцев назад

Good interview.

@twittertwice 5 месяцев назад

Emma Was a pretty girl who won . Her down fall included several things, but too many people in tennis related businesses came after her bc of her pretty face. Her tennis was put last.

@speabody 5 месяцев назад

Simping made sense the year after she won. But 2.5 yrs later it still happens and I’m convinced she’s popular because she’s small and cute and her name is Emma. People love the name Emma.

@kevinwaters5872 5 месяцев назад

Emma , and her opponent that day Leylah Fernandez , have found out how hard life is now that covid is in the past.

@charcoalberries819 5 месяцев назад

Good interview, but i wish the interviewer would stop putting words in Victoria's mouth, trying to predict what she was going to say, and just allow her to speak completely in her own words

@mohammedsoofi3904 5 месяцев назад

I’ll summarise - she says “I don’t know”

@markphilpottultra 5 месяцев назад

Simon......Emma attended those events to satisfy sponsors obligations. Part and parcel of immediate success and comes with the territory after winning a slam, especially the US Open when everybody then wants a piece of you. Learn to deal with that, and then you can deal with anything. Many greats before her walked the same tight rope, Steffi Graff was one for sure.

@sadie513 5 месяцев назад

He forgot the saying strike while the iron is hot. Emma wasn't the only one who attended the Met Gala, Leylah was there too. They were both coming off an insanely popular USO so it wasn't surprising.

@peterdollins3610 5 месяцев назад

Emma will win loads if she can regain her health after Covid. If not Emma will win nothing. You cannot win at that level without being 100%. It's that simple.. I am a fan of Emma so I can only hope she does recover fully.

@josiahfadder 5 месяцев назад

So many factors lead to winning in sports, including luck. Predicting is basically guessing based on past info. Doesn't account for anything that is about to happen. Usually, why most predictions in sports are wrong unless there is an overwhelming favourite and even those sometimes don't go according to plan

@gaskellr44 5 месяцев назад

Some might argue that Rads luck in the US Open win was her draw, but all her players got very strong as the tourn went along, but matches wise, if I rem rightly, she deserevd to win them all, some quite convincingly, especially in the final, where she was better tha Fer...

@special-t-419onurbandictio9 5 месяцев назад

emma's good there's a pool of talent you need to earn it.

@MrRockrobstr 5 месяцев назад

I really like the way she thinks.

@Soulboy63 5 месяцев назад

Well Done Victoria . Emma will need to stay injury free & increase fitness , stamina , improve forehand & serve . If that all happens she has the game to go to quarter finals , imo

@2smoulder 5 месяцев назад

Vika has a winner's mindset and so do all the top players, something people who have not reached the top of their sport don't truly understand. Emma has this in spades and will stand her in good stead in her future. Hope that she stays healthy and improves over time, with no distractions.

@paulc2007 4 месяца назад

why do we talk about her like shes british though just cos she won something, firstly she was born in canada thats not the UK, secondly her father is romanian and her mother is chinese yet because she won a grand slam and we are so desperate as a nation to be successful all of a sudden this girl is british

@feechi8719 5 месяцев назад

6:06 yeah but I think you might not get that opportunity again. She's been unlucky with injuries but she's not going to get invited to the met 2 years after winning, you have to take your chances when you get them. Her ambition may not be to win 10 grand slams. Maybe she wants to do some modelling and go to the met gala or whatever. There are players that haven't won a slam that have done modelling and that apparently isn't the reason they aren't winning anything.

@JohnSmith-oe5kx Месяц назад

Emma Raducanu is the new Genie Bouchard, who never won a major but was a better player than Raducanu has been so far.

@professor4444 5 месяцев назад

Baring really bad injuries i would bet Emma will win another slam, maybe even Wimbledon

@kevinmcfarlane2752 5 месяцев назад

Yes, too early to judge at this point because of the injuries. If she can have a decent spell where she’s injury-free let’s see how she does.

@AlastairBarker 5 месяцев назад

NO SORRY.

@pedropelaez 5 месяцев назад

Commentators comment. McEnroe was not wrong.

@heiligebimbam3073 5 месяцев назад

Enough about Raducanu, the US OPEN was 2years ago. The frenzy in England was really over the top. Leyla Fernández the runner up, also 18 years at the time, has remained grounded. Are people going to get stuck in the past about Raducanu’s single achievement forever?

@sadie513 5 месяцев назад

Yes.

@JohnSmith-oe5kx Месяц назад

What Fernandez achieved was more impressive, in my opinion. She had a FAR tougher toute to the final, and the only thing the Raducanu did better was to win the final... against the unseeded Fernandez 😆

@ZenoLee0 5 месяцев назад

Typical journalist trying to bait players into drama and Azarenka handles it like a champ. Trash journalism at its best.

@kevingilhooley2064 5 месяцев назад

To be fair to Simon Jordan, he's not really a journalist.

@JohnSmith-oe5kx Месяц назад

It was great for Raducanu that she won the US Open, although a real shame for Fernandez, who had accomplished far more. Raducanu got the luckiest draw of all time. She has never won a set against a top 10 player in her entire life, so I do not know why everyone has such high expectations of her.

@ingal.3644 5 месяцев назад

You don't like her to do this to do that. Who are you then? I bet you don't even buy a ticket to see her play.

@vls3771 5 месяцев назад

The quote "everyone was trying to be her friend all of a sudden " and only a few people really were her friends and family hundreds of "hangers on " gather around these unusual situations like Raducanu found herslf in ...shes a nice person from a solid family did the rounds to make a career from tennis and Raducanu found herslf in the deepest end possible in tennis... All the idiots and losers included unfortunately came out if their holes for a piece of her .....

@Soulboy63 5 месяцев назад

Of course , Emma needed to take sponsors money , esp as she was havign surgery , after all , a sports person career can be over in an instant ( injury )

@squeedum4893 5 месяцев назад

Typical "gotcha!" journalism. I'll be honest. What Emma did was remarkable, and will probably never be done again. But she did not play anybody that was in the Top 10 at that time. Aside from Bencic and Sakkari, were there any other big players in her path to the final? And her record since then reflects that. She needs to regularly face and defeat Top 10 players in order to be considered top-tier. Otherwise, her US Open title will just be seen as a flash in the pan.

@yaofaust89 5 месяцев назад

Emma’s usopen 2021 components is much tougher than many grand slam winner

@JohnSmith-oe5kx Месяц назад

@@yaofaust89 Raducanu's slam win was probably the easiest in history in terms of seeding of opponents.

@JohnSmith-oe5kx Месяц назад

Only Bencic (11) and Sakkari (17). Fernandez, who was also 18, defeated Osaka (3), Kerber (16), Svitolina (5) and Sabalenka (2), which was far more impressive. It was a real shame that she lost the final. Raducanu has never won a set against a top 10 player in her entire career.

@yaofaust89 Месяц назад

@@JohnSmith-oe5kx it's a more easy slam for eastern europe drug eater , such as IGA , Sabalenk, rybakinna.

@tomhinds14 5 месяцев назад

She’s a dose

@Yogi22727 5 месяцев назад

Emma Raducanu was born in Canada, therefore she is not British.

@aguyfromnewzealand3392 5 месяцев назад

She has lived in Britain most of her life and has a very British accent (not that you have to have an accent to be British 😊) she has a British passport and is a British citizen. How much more British can you get 😂

@Yogi22727 5 месяцев назад

I cannot make it any clearer, she was born in Canada therefor she is not British.@@aguyfromnewzealand3392

@yaofaust89 5 месяцев назад

She brought the biggest achievement of woman tennis to Uk for 47yo

@lisachalmers5687 5 месяцев назад

I predict Emma will end up like Bouchard, she will pursue social media likes. A one hit wonder.

@marymagdalene3004 5 месяцев назад

She talks and doesn't say anything. Unrealistic because you just know that she has opinions, but seems to be trying to be so "balanced" in her thinking. Does not seem authentic to me. Also, if I were an interviewer I would not want to waste my time talking to someone who is not going to be real with me. Not that a person should not try to be diplomatic in what they say, but that they don't go so to the center that they have no opinion at all. Just not realistic. Or if she is truly that way why would she ever consent to do an interview where she is going to be asked to express or share her opinions? Not fair to the journalist nor to the readers.

@pjl7592 4 месяца назад

Radacnu is not British.

@johncollins392 4 месяца назад

British tennis players dint win much?,what about the success in doubles & invalid tennis or dosen't that count?, ignorance on your part !.

@Agent77X 5 месяцев назад

Still continuous get injury, get sick and routine switching tennis coaches. Cannot go past 2nd round after her 2021 U.S. Open win!😂 Raducanu is too frail for top tier pro league tennis!

@augustbruce 5 месяцев назад

Like i said---she herself beat NOONE in the top 20 on her way to the win. Giving her credit for someone else beating a top 20 player is ridiculous, invalid and absurd. She is weak mentally, fragile physically, and not that highly skilled. I would be surprised to see her get too 100, which is actually pretty good.

@xaquison 5 месяцев назад

💯that is the truth

@ReTracer 5 месяцев назад

How about getting your facts straight. You wrote: “Emma beat NOONE in the top 20 on the way to the win“ Belinda Bencic (quarterfinal) and Maria Sakkari (semifinal) were both top twenty and about to reach the top ten. In fact if Bencic had won her match vs Raducanu she would have been no.10 in the world. And if Sakkari had won her semifinal vs Raducanu the ranking points she would gained would have taken her to top 5. She took them both out in straight sets, along with every other of her ten US Open matches. Keep struggling with your logic, grasping at straws, or making up “alternative facts”

@sadie513 5 месяцев назад

Bencic and Sakkari were both in the Top 20. The former was coming off an Olympic gold win. So your first statement is already wrong.

@AlitleInLuv 5 месяцев назад

As has already been stated, Emma beat two top 20 players in the QF and SF then beat Fernandez who was undoubtably the favourite to win the match.

@jasperherr8694 5 месяцев назад

Maybe radacanu took drugs or something, and she slipped the loophole

@samisankey3104 5 месяцев назад

Lmao. Drugs wouldn’t have that great of an effect. She had a great couple of weeks!

@eyeofthetiger6002 5 месяцев назад

@@samisankey3104not a couple but 3 weeks because she was a qualifier and had to win the qualifying tournament first which makes Emma the only Slam champion in history to win 2040 ranking points, the 40 extra points is for winning her qualifying tournament. As if that wasn't enough of a challenge she also went through the entire tournament without dropping a set,no one even got close to beating her because she wasn't even taken to a tie break in any of her matches! This is the scale of Emma's achievements, don't think it'll ever be repeated again!

@danstenis660 5 месяцев назад

I can't even recognize Azarenka in this video. Is that even her? Doesn't look like her. Azarenka on tennis TV looks so beautiful. But this supposedly Azarenka in person doesn't look anywhere as good.