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Perhaps nobody could understand Emma Raducanu's experience like her fellow former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, and the latter would be very happy to sit down and talk to her about it.

The Canadian knocked Raducanu out of the Miami Open last week, and it has sparked a run to the fourth round in which she has started resembling the player who shocked Serena Williams in the 2019 Flushing Meadows final.

It was part of a sudden surge to fame that season as a teenager, similar to that of Raducanu two years later. As known, they share other things in common, such as a degree of Romanian heritage and being born just outside Toronto.

Both have found rediscovering that New York magic elusive, and whole experience is something that the newly open Andreescu – due to play in Miami last sixteen late on Monday night – would like to compare notes on.

'I would love to talk to her about just like what happened after US Open,' said the 22 year-old Canadian. 'All the success, all the media stuff like that, how she dealt with it, how I dealt with it, how we can maybe help each other in that way.

'Also, I know that we both haven't been having, I guess, the results we wanted. I don't want to speak on behalf of her but I'm sure she wants to do better than she is. And maybe we could just kind of help each other out in that sense.'

Andreescu had a serious knee injury following 2019 and, amid the pandemic, found herself wanting to quit altogether. She has found solace in Yoga, meditation and reading and spoken about these have helped her mental health.

It is a topic that has arisen again in tennis over the past few days with 29 year-old former world No 10 Lucas Pouille from France telling L'Equipe how a form slump saw him descend

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