
Can it really be only 12 months ago that Emma Raducanu introduced herself to Wimbledon as a beaming, joyous 18-year-old happy to even be invited to the tournament on the back of a WTA career consisting of one match and one straight-sets defeat.
Raducanu's unexpected charge to the fourth round made her front page news but the teenager then retired mid-match with "breathing difficulties" in something of an anti-climax.