“Raducanu justifies primetime billing even as Sabalenka’s superpower wins out” – Jonathan Liew

“On Wednesday after beating Marketa Vondrousova she described a moment when her fug of concentration lifted for a second and the scale of it all suddenly hit her all at once – the crowd, the court, the occasion, what it all would mean – and briefly forgot how she was going to hit the ball. What must it feel like to live in this glare, to sense that tremendous rumbling noise every time you walk to practice or log on to the internet, to stay sane and competent in a world where the walls are constantly trying to collapse in on you?”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/05/raducanu-justifies-primetime-billing-even-as-sabalenkas-superpower-wins-out