Sky Sports tennis expert Laura Robson looks ahead to the Wimbledon hopes of Emma Raducanu and Coco Gauff as well as the contenders for the men's title; you can watch the Hamburg, Swiss and Palermo Open, exclusively live on Sky Sports Tennis following Wimbledon
Monday 1 July 2024 11:23, UK
Laura Robson is getting very excited ahead of Wimbledon and looks ahead to the hopes of former US Open champion Emma Raducanu and why Coco Gauff is a real contender for the women's singles title...
I'm so happy for her. She's healthy at the moment and excited to get out there and play. You see the buzz she's got at the moment and the love she's brought back to her tennis, and it has definitely been helped by being healthy.
If you're feeling good in your body and being confident, it changes everything. She's played two great lead-up events in Nottingham and Eastbourne and done really well, so it is all great signs going into her match and I'm excited to see her do that walk-out onto Centre Court.
The mentality stays the same and no matter who it's against, it's the first round of a Slam.
I don't feel like Coco dwells in the past. She won't be looking to lose first round, but at the same time I think she's always looking ahead, looking at what she can improve in her game and do better on court every time she's out there, which is why she's one of the most exciting players in the women's game.
She has such a great attitude and such a great team around her as well, so Coco is a contender in every tournament she plays - and has been since that run to the title at the US Open.
In my mind, she's almost a veteran these days because she's been around for so long and had such a lot of experience, but she's still such a young player with a lot still to improve on.
I think the men's draw is a little bit more open. I could probably think of four or five people I could see doing really well. Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic - for me, if he wasn't feeling good or healthy he just wouldn't play.
He's won so much in his life, he's only entering a tournament if he's got a chance of winning it. I would definitely throw him in that group and maybe Alexander Zverev as well.
Now there's a bit of a changing of the guard anyway, all these names we've been hearing about for the last few years are very much in the mix.
As defending champion you've got to feel good and I love the tradition of last year's champion opening up on Centre Court, the same for Marketa Vondrusova on Tuesday. It's another special element.
Everything about this club is special for me and I love the tradition of it. It's a bit of a blinder for the Centre Court tickets and all good matches.
You never know how someone is going to go as defending champion, but he just deals with the pressure so well and having won Roland Garros, he's got to be feeling good about his tennis.
I always find it funny that people are like 'Sinner's not great on grass' and he's not having it as his favourite surface. He made the semis last year, but I think the confidence he has in his game, the mental belief is such a difference this year.
Every match, he seems to be going in as favourite and he just seems so humble about it and at peace with it, the way he goes about his business.
He got here pretty early last week to start practicing and he looks pretty good. He hits the ball probably, the cleanest of anybody on tour and it's such a nice strike. He's No 1 seed for a reason.
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