Emma Raducanu on deleting Instagram and WhatsApp: The negativity affects you
msn.com6-2, 6-3 win over Danka Kovinic on Thursday, in what was her first competitive match since the Australian Open, where she lost to Coco Gauff. "After the AO [Australian Open] I deleted WhatsApp and Instagram off my phone, and after that, I've been living under my own little rock," Raducanu said. "I felt like sometimes you go through patches where you just want to zone in on yourself, and I was very content with my life without it. “I think that [negativity] is a part of social media.
I feel that it affects you, but I’ve just learned regardless of what you do — if you do good, if you do bad — people are going to come at you regardless.
Now it doesn’t really bother me so much and I don’t really let it affect me. ”Raducanu faces Magda Linette at the WTA 1000 tournament next after overcoming tonsillitis and a recurring wrist injury to see off Kovinic. "I just woke up feeling not great, to be honest.
I felt quite ill so I'm just happy to have played the match and then to win it, despite how I felt today," Raducanu said. "Today, before the match, I did not warm up.
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