What next for Emma Raducanu? As British No 1 fights back tears after her latest defeat and claims ‘it’s very difficult’ to go on, here’s why this summer is make or break, writes JAMES SHARPE

Out of nowhere, Emma Raducanu’s voice began to quiver and her eyes suddenly filled with tears. None of us in the room saw it coming, least of all it seemed Raducanu.

That was, in many ways, the most revealing part. Raducanu had given all the usual answers to all the usual questions after her first-round defeat to Solana Sierra: she was disappointed to lose, she needed to take the positives from the fight she mustered in the second set after being ‘bageled’ in the first, and how her lack of matches leading into Roland Garros due to injury and illness had

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