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LONDON (AP) \u2014 Emma Raducanu expressed frustration with having to get a couple of her rackets re-strung during her third-round loss<\/a> to top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

The British player let leads slip in both sets of her 7-6 (6), 6-4 loss at Centre Court with the retractable roof closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like the ball was flying. I had all my rackets strung up fresh for the match, and it just felt like it was pinging completely different,\u201d Raducanu said. \u201cIt could have been a little bit because the roof was on. I sent a couple rackets to be re-strung.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it takes, like, 20 minutes by the time they turn it over. Still, it was a bit difficult. So I\u2019m frustrated with that part maybe, small details. But I don\u2019t think I could have made different choices. I think I should have just executed better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabalenka agreed \u201cthe balls were flying more,\u201d she suspected, because of higher humidity with the roof closed.<\/p>\n

The three-time Grand Slam champion said her team typically has extra rackets ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey always have like two extra rackets with the higher tension and two extra rackets with lower tension. They prepare it. You don\u2019t have to wait for another racket,\u201d Sabalenka said.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka said she lost in the 2023 French Open semifinals to Karolina Muchova \u201cbecause I didn\u2019t have racket\u201d with the right tension.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t prepared. I didn\u2019t have a right tension. I had to play with a lower tension. I didn\u2019t control the ball, didn\u2019t feel well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that experience,\u201d she continued, \u201cwe learned it\u2019s four extra rackets in my team\u2019s bag just in case. You never know. You can wake up and feel great with one tension. Another day you wake up and you don\u2019t feel at all. You got to be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Emma Raducanu expressed frustration with having to get a couple of her rackets re-strung during…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2477,10115,31982,62,1464,67,132,68,2071,14374],"class_list":{"0":"post-40194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-karolina-muchova","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wimbledon","17":"tag-wimbledon-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}