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Seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe has claimed the pressure of being a major winner looks to have 'overwhelmed' British number one Emma Raducanu.
The 19-year-old Briton was defeated in the second round of the French Open by world number 49 Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 28, of Belarus on Wednesday.
This marks Raducanu's second consecutive second round exit from a Grand Slam as she struggles to replicate the heroics that won her a stunning victory at the US Open in 2021.
Emma Raducanu has lost in the second round of the French and the Australian Open in 2022
Raducanu become the first ever player to win a Grand Slam having started out as a qualifier
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McEnroe told Eurosport: 'We have got to keep a little perspective here.
'At Wimbledon last year she was unable to finish a match because of stress and it got to be too much for her.
'Then she came out and did something that no one has ever done – man or woman – in 150 years of tennis,
