BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Emma Radicarno bursting onto the world stage back in

2021 when she went from being, it is fair to say, an almost unknown 18-year-old tennis player

to winning the US Open. She became the first British woman to secure a grand slam,

a singles title since Virginia Wade back in 1977 at, of course, Wimbledon.

The media interest in her has been huge.

It's been worldwide.

Her tennis career, though, has been put on hold after three procedures on both wrists and an ankle,

left her on the sidelines for the past six months.

She's back on court, though.

She's ready to make a very much anticipated return to competitive action, and she's been talking to Kathy about her plans for the

season ahead. Emma, it's lovely to see you again. How is the body? Yeah, it's going really well. I'm

loving the training that I'm doing right now. I'm very itchy and hungry to go for quite some time now. And yeah, it's just nice to be back doing,

you know, what I love, what I know, having four days, having double sessions. I think it's the

best feeling ever. You've obviously had a couple of procedures on your wrists and on your ankle,

which has meant not being on tour for a while. What are the experiences that you've maybe had

over the last few months that you wouldn't have had if you've been on tour? Yeah, I think the biggest thing from the last

few months was how much I missed the sport. And I think that was the standout thing, how much I missed

training, how much I missed my body hurting and, you know, feeling tired and dragging yourself

through some certain exercises where you don't feel like it,

I think that's the biggest standout because when you're on the tour, 35 weeks a year,

sometimes you can feel like it's very difficult to keep that spark.

And when you have time away, I think the distance just really makes you grateful for the time that you are on court

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