Emma Navarro hunted now under the hunt on the WTA tour

It is a challenge that you expected and hugs.

“I think it’s really cool that people think that they find the holes in my game and come after them,” she said. “This is exciting for me because I tried to develop into a player who has as few holes as possible, and I think I will only get rid of these holes.

“So I don’t have the feeling that I am near my blanket. My thoughts are just coming to me and I will continue to be more and more ready for it.”

Navarros preference for three-set games remains intact. She won four games in a row to do the quarter -finals at the Australian Open, to share two more threes in Dubai and lost in Miami against the British Star Emma Raducanu in the third set last week.

The loss of the second round in Miami came with a silver strip when Navarro was allowed to return home early to spend some time in her new house in Charleston and start the transition from hardcours to Green Clay.

Like Charlestonian Shelby Rogers’ colleague in front of her, Navarro has to fight with the advantages and the pressure of playing in a hometown tournament.

“I think the greatest thing I had to learn to play at home was just the balance between trying to treat it like any other tournament,” said Rogers, who retired after the US Open of last year. “There are so many external variables and factors and various events, and their friends and family are there. This is great, but at the same time they exert more pressure on themselves almost unintentionally because they want to play well in front of them.

“And so it only learns that the city and the people, their friends and family support them and love them, no matter what happens on the pitch, because they know who they are as a person. I think it starts very quickly, and I think she already understands that.”

Navarro said: “I just want to enjoy it this year. I think I play my best tennis when I have fun on the pitch, so I just want to enjoy the moment.