The stage, her age and being a Briton at Wimbledon - why Emma Raducanu faced a situation like no other

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What happened to Emma Raducanu on Monday night? She was overwhelmed by the intensity of the whole experience. And we shouldn’t be entirely surprised. Raducanu has skipped so many phases of development that she was like an aspiring comedian playing Wembley Arena without having trialled her material on the pub circuit first. The pressure of carrying British hopes can leave a person ferociously exposed. Andy Murray, who did it for over a decade, used to suffer mouth ulcers in the build-up to Wimble

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