- Raducan suffered a 6-3, 6-2 by Moyuka Uchima from Japan in the first round
- The British seemed little cooked after taking a free time of tennis after his terrible experience.
- Raducanu has suffered six losses in seven games and has fought in the service
Emma Raducanu's India of Wells campaign was flown by the desert winds, since it was hit 6-3, 6-2 by Moyuka Uchijima of Japan in the first round.
After the terrible experience of the 22 -year -old with a stalker in the Middle East, this event was always more about returning and spending a week in the sun than any hope would run.
Raducanu had a week with zero tennis when he recovered emotionally after Dubai, he told us that he spent most of his time in Waterstones and the Gail bakery, so he was inevitably little cooked. Her movement also seemed under the torque, and she had a left knee.
But the spooky fact is that this was Raducanu's sixth defeat in his last seven games. The new coach Vladimir Platenik, in the stands here, who works through the France Open, has some work to do.
The conditions were really difficult. The palm trees leaned like the tower of Pisa and I had the first view of the ground floor on the road. The wind plagues the mountains here and revolves around this huge bowl of a stadium.
But there has never been a wind that blows only one side of the court and Uchijima treated the conditions much better.
Emma Raducanu was defeated 6-3, 6-2 by Moyuka Uchijima in the first round in Indian Wells
Raducanu was playing his first game since his terrible experience in Dubai and was little cooked
Uchijima from Japan broke the Raducanu service five times in 10 service games during the match
Raducanu broke five times in 10 service games and there is no doubt what the first element will be on Platenik's agenda. The Slovaks who have worked with the former player of the 10 best, Daria Kasatkina and, more recently, Lulu Sun must find a way for Raducanu to win more points behind her second service.
Its percentage of points won in the second service has collapsed this year and was 33 percent here.
Uchijama is three positions ahead of Raducanu in 52ยบ in the world, but the British is a more elegant player and will feel that with a better preparation he would have obtained victory.
Raducanu can obtain a decent training block with Platenik now before moving to Miami. This was a bad performance and a strong defeat, but at least marks the end of a dark period of Raducanu's young life.
Meanwhile, on the male side of the raffle, the British NO2 Jacob Fearnley lost 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 to the Brazilian sensation Joao Fonseca. The 18 -year -old bunning will play with the childhood friend of Fearnley, Jack Draper, in the second round of Saturday, in what looks like the first confrontation of blockbuster of the male raffle.