Raducanu's withdrawal. What can we learn from this?

She is young and has a big future ahead of her, Judy Murray has gone up in my estimation for defending her, and Piers Morgan needs to wind his neck in, nasty man that he is. McEnroe was a brat, a loud, unpleasant young man who may have softened a bit over the years, but is in no position to give anyone advice about how to handle pressure!

I am sad that there appear to be some media commentators implying that an anxiety attack implies fault on behalf of the sufferer, a "lack of moral fibre", when it is no such thing.

At the French open, Naomi Osaka's refusal to be grilled by the press ten seconds after losing or winning a match was similarly treated by some.

Shameful.

And we'll said, Judy Murray.

I think when they sign up, it’s part of the deal that they have to do the press conference afterwards. I should think it’s the last thing they want to do but if that’s the rule then hey ho.

Lucca

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Marcus Rashford is an utter sweetheart.

Absolutely he is, a 100% good egg.

I know this is a massive cliche, but his mum should be really proud of the great lad she raised. We know it wasn't easy for her, but she really did give him strong values and a kind heart.

Polarbear I have said nothing about the player, only about what happened to her. She is an intelligent woman and will been well aware of how much hype surrounded her and would cntinue to do so. She had a panic attack, to my mind, no big deal, they happen a lot.

I think she will have realised that it was bound to be hyped and will get the help she needs to help her recover and get back to work.

Worse things happen at sea.

Well, she should be in good hands. Her coach is Andy Murray's father in law and so she is surrounded by experience to help her out.

Young and inexperienced and the whole occasion overwhelmed her. Also the waiting to get on court couldn’t have helped her. Lovely smile and plenty of talent and she will come back more ready for the big occasion.

Emma Macaranu is young granted. Wasn't Boris Becker only 17 when he won Wimbledon? UK's latest hopeful (born in Canada apparently) was perhaps not given enough coaching on what the pressures of entering such a massive competition are. May have the technical but not the psychological skills - yet! Do wish her well for her future in the tennis world.

She’s a great player but she’s been under the scrutiny of the press - she’s so young and it must have put her under some pressure. Coupled with nerves at playing on court 1 and the wait all day to get on the court, it’s obviously had an effect.

On reflection what I think is worrying is that perhaps if she had been male after her recovery she'd have been urged to get back on court. Being female she was perhaps prey to sexist expectations when they advised her to retire.

Also I believe the roof was on during that match which means that the ball would have behaved in a different way to anything she’d experienced before. It could have, perhaps, affected her in that things that she did physically didn’t work in the same way as they would normally do: ie it disorientated her. I know some players hate it when the roof goes on part way through a match.