Anna Richardson, a host of Naked Attraction, has made a sincere appeal for better understanding and education of diabetes and urging others to be more aware of its effects.
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Anna Richardson, a television presenter, has admitted to being ignorant about her father’s diabetes battle. The 54-year-old host of Naked Attraction, a much-loved show, has highlighted how persistent myths about diabetes may be having an impact on both their physical and mental health.
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Anna, who revealed that both of her parents now have diabetes after her mother was recently diagnosed, has also revealed that she is guilty of making comments about it to her loved ones. She has recently conducted a lot more research into the metabolic disorder and is determined to dispel the myths that accompany it.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, Anna shared: “Type 2 diabetes runs in my family – my dad’s had it for years, and mum’s also recently been diagnosed in her later years. In all honesty, I’ve been guilty of passing comments to my dad about what he puts in his mouth, we all have been. But I never stopped and thought about how crushing that might’ve made him feel, which in turn may impact his relationship with his condition.
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I also learned that I have diabetes while I’m in the menopause, so I’m just beginning a journey with it myself. Abbott’s efforts to change the perception of diabetes, especially Type 2, have given me a fresh perspective on the condition and sparked me to exercise better health, which has seemed to work. My sugars are much higher than they were before, and I’ve already lost a stone.
Anna admits that there is a general ” stereotype” of what a person who suffers from diabetes looks like when in reality, so many different kinds of people are affected by the condition, and that this is often misperceived by those who don’t.
The TV personality said, “I think many people have a picture of how diabetes looks, and I really want to break the myth that this is due to laziness because it is a very complex condition. Few people are aware of its causes or potential health risks. This is why comments like “stop eating sweets,” “just lose some weight,” or “you did it to yourself” are so common and incorrect.
Type 1 can occur to anyone, and Type 2 can result from lifestyle, but there are many other factors that can also affect it, including genetics, ethnicity, age, and even gender. We don’t really need to be better at recognizing and paying attention to this unconscious bias when talking to or about people, but I can’t think of many other chronic conditions where we incorrectly associate behavior with the outcome.
It’s obvious that making people believe they have this condition because of something they did or because of it will have an impact on how they relate to it. Some people may believe in false information, while others may believe it and look the other way.
Anna explains why diabetes is frequently misperceived and how she feels about it.
“I’ve met young women with Type 2 diabetes who are having a hard time getting pregnant because of their condition, and they feel incredibly embarrassed,” she said.
The truth is that diabetes is not related to how many cakes you eat, but rather to how poorly someone’s pancreas functions. Let’s keep in mind as a society that people with diabetes can feel supported and empowered to seek out the assistance they require to improve their health.
You’re not alone, and people shouldn’t make you feel like there is any sense of shame or blame, Anna said, giving a useful tip to those who might feel misunderstood or excluded from society as a result of their condition. Find people like you who are also managing this challenging condition, gain from those positive role models, and have faith in the existence of many resources you can use to correct and refute those errors.
It’s still a rather secret condition, according to Halle Berry and Tom Hanks, despite the more public interest in its prevalence. I don’t know of any British celebrities who are positive about their Type 2 diabetes management. The problem might also be caused by the lack of visibility itself.
Anna is campaigning with Abbott’s new Above the Bias initiative which aims to help others see the world from the perspective of someone living with diabetes. The initiative builds uponefforts by several diabetes organisations, patient advocacy groups, and experts that continue to work to reduce stigmaabout diabetes.
AboveBias.com has more information about the movie and Above the Bias.
Customers may be surprised to learn that Amazon may not be the most affordable retailer when it comes to gaming content as the Amazon Spring Deals Week rolls out. This Amazon deals event doesn’t apply to name-brand consoles and gaming peripherals, as most of them are still selling at full price, unlike Black Friday and Prime Day sales. There is one place to shop for less than £100 if you’ve been considering entering the world of VR gaming.
Due to Argos’ cutting of the Meta Quest 3S 128GB, which is priced below £300, players who are new to and have experience with VR can now purchase one of the most affordable headsets on the market, the Meta Quest 3S 128GB, for even less money.
The Meta Quest 3S 128GB can be purchased from Argos for £289.99, less than Amazon’s £389.99 price tag. A three-month subscription to Meta Quest+, which comes with a copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow, as well as a pair of Asgard’s Wrath 2, Fruit Ninja, and Walkabout Mini Golf, will also be included in the headset’s price, which will be worth £60. The headset’s 128GB storage option is included in this agreement, but a larger, 256GB version is available for a slightly higher price.
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At Argos (Argos), the Meta Quest 3S 128GB is now 100pcs less expensive than Amazon.
In contrast to the Meta Quest 3’s 4K resolution and 512 GB of storage, the Meta Quest 3S offers gameplay with a high-definition resolution of 1832×1920 pixels per eye and 128GB of storage. The 3S’s cheaper price point is only enhanced by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor and the same white shell, making it even more alluring.
The Meta Quest 3S can be a little fiddly when it comes to adjusting its lenses, as “the adjustment process is now replicating the laborious, remove the headset, slide the lenses, and put the headset back on that we found with the Meta Quest 2.” Our hardware expert Jasmine Mannan stated in her review that “a mixed reality headset never will look the same as real life, but a mixed reality headset is never going to look the same as real life, but the … Although Meta had to find a way to cut costs somewhere, the situation is a little obnoxious.
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On the Meta Quest 3S, you can find a wealth of games, including some of the most highly regarded VR games on the market. If you’re a fan of the Batman Arkham series of video games, it’s a great way to get into truly immersive gaming. This is the place if you’ve been looking for a nightlife chance. You won’t be turned down for the chance to play Batman, let’s be honest.
For those who want to play online games with friends, this headset has a built-in microphone and Bluetooth connectivity. It can use USB-C wireless to connect to your console. The battery life of the headset is two hours, and there is a one-hour charge-time difference. Despite this, the Meta Quest 3S is completely wireless, reducing risks and allowing you to explore Gotham from your home.
The Meta Quest 3S 128GB headset retails at £289, the same price as Argos. The higher-end model known as the Meta Quest 3 can be purchased for £359.99 from Argos and Amazon.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who had endorsed Palestinians who were affected by the Gaza war, was detained and denied on Tuesday by US authorities.
Ozturk’s arrest is the latest instance of , President Donald Trump’s administration acting against international college students over their support for Palestinians during the Gaza solidarity encampments that erupted across university campuses last year. Students who fought for Palestine are being detained and detained, and their legal visas and residence status have been suspended.
Here is more about the US university students who have been detained so far:
Trump wants to deport US students, but why?
The Trump administration alleges that the students who participated in pro-Palestine protests spread anti-Semitism and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus — a claim students, lawyers and activists have all rebutted. Many of the most well-known US protests against the Gaza war have involved Jewish activists and organizations.
On January 29, Trump signed an executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism”, in which he ordered the head of each executive department or agency to submit a report within 60 days on all criminal and civil authorities and actions available for fighting anti-Semitism.
A day later, the White House released a fact sheet. In the fact sheet, Trump said: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I’ll also immediately revoke all Hamas sympathizers’ student visas on college campuses, which have experienced unprecedented radicalism.
His administration has since targeted multiple international students and scholars in the US.
Rumeysa Ozturk
Security camera footage from Tuesday evening shows six individuals in plainclothes taking Ozturk into custody near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts. Some of these police officers had their faces partially covered. Ozturk had headed out alone to meet her friends for Iftar, the evening meal to break her Ramadan fast.
The 30-year-old is a Fulbright Scholar in Tufts’ doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development and a Turkish national. She has been in the US on a valid student visa.
Ozturk and four other students wrote an opinion piece for the Tufts Daily, her university’s student news website, on March 26, 2024. In this piece, the authors criticised the institute’s President Sunil Kumar, who sent an email dismissing resolutions passed by the Tufts Community Union Senate, which called for the university to divest from companies linked to Israel and “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide”.
Late on Tuesday, Ozturk’s attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, filed a petition in Boston federal court alleging that he had been detained without authorization. As a result, US District Judge Indira Talwani ordered US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) not to move Ozturk out of Massachusetts without 48 hours notice.
Despite this, Ozturk’s lawyer claims that she was moved to Louisiana by Wednesday night.
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an X post on Wednesday: “DHS + ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans”. What these activities were, according to McLaughlin, was not specified.
“A visa is a privilege not a right. The visa issuance process must end in the event that you support and glorify terrorists who murder Americans. This is commonsense security”, McLaughlin wrote.
We have not been able to contact her because we are not aware of her whereabouts. No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of”, Khanbabai said in a statement.
Sunil Kumar, president of Tufts University, claimed in a written statement that the institution had not been informed prior to this arrest. “From what we have been told subsequently, the student’s visa status has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true”, Kumar said.
Software engineer Michael Mathis, 32, captured the video of Ozturk’s arrest on his security camera. “It looked like a kidnapping”, he said, according to a report by AP. They turn around and begin to grab her while covering their faces. They’re covering their faces. They are in unmarked vehicles.
On Wednesday, hundreds of people gathered in Somerville to protest the arrest of Ozturk, demanding her release.
Standing with thousands of Somerville residents to protest the vile, obscene abduction of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk by masked federal agents last night. We need to bring Rumeysa home and organize a coordinated defense of our immigrant neighbors and our rights. pic . twitter.com/LSGLLlraIi
Mahmoud Khalil
On March 8, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who was the lead negotiator for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) during the campus protests last year. He was taken from his university-owned New York City apartment while his wife, Noor Abdalla, who is eight months pregnant, recorded the arrest on her phone. This marked the first publicly known student deportation effort of its kind under the Trump administration.
McLaughlin alleged Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization”, but no evidence for this was provided. Abdalla claimed that the agents conducted the arrest without a warrant. Khalil was transferred to an ICE processing facility in Jena, Louisiana.
Khalil was a permanent resident with a green card at the time of his arrest. When the ICE agents were told that Khalil had a green card, they said that this would be revoked. The link to a news article about Khalil’s arrest was provided by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who wrote, “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
On March 10, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University.” Trump added that Khalil’s arrest was the first of many. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again,” Trump wrote, without offering any evidence to back his accusations against Khalil.
Khalil, 30, was born in a Syrian refugee camp as an Algerian. He arrived at Columbia in January 2023 to pursue his Master’s degree in public administration. Five days after Israel’s first war with Gaza broke out, Khalil was one of the students who organized the first campus protest.
Amid the protests, Khalil was briefly suspended by Columbia, but reinstated after the university found no grounds for suspension. Khalil claimed at the time that he did not participate in the camps because he was concerned about losing his F-1 student visa while serving as the lead negotiator.
It is unclear when he received his green card, but his wife, Abdalla, is a US citizen.
In a court filing on March 13, Khalil’s attorneys, led by Amy Belsher, wrote in a statement on March 13 that the government’s unlawful policy of pursuing noncitizens for arrest and detention violates the First Amendment.
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on Monday, April 29, 2024 [Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo]
Badar Khan Suri
Indian national Badar Khan Suri was arrested on the evening of March 17 at his home in northern Virginia. At Georgetown University’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Suri is a postdoctoral fellow. He had been in Virginia for three years and held a valid US student visa at the time of arrest.
We have not been given a reason for Suri’s detention, according to a written statement from Georgetown University: “We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity.”
McLaughlin attributed Suri’s arrest to his “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism”. She stated on X: “Suri has close ties to a well-known or suspected terrorist who is a senior advisor to Hamas.”
Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is an American citizen, she confirmed to Al Jazeera. Saleh was the daughter of a senior Hamas adviser, according to a post on X on February 13. Ahmed Yousef, a former adviser to assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, confirmed to The New York Times that he is Suri’s father-in-law.
However, there is no proof that Suri organized anti-Semitism or spread Hamas propaganda.
On March 20, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia Court halted Suri’s deportation. Suri is currently being held in Alvarado, Texas, according to the ICE website.
Yunseo Chung
Yunseo Chung, 21, is a Korean-American Columbia student and permanent resident of the US and has lived in the US since she was seven. Chung was one of the several students arrested for participating in a pro-Palestine protest on March 5 this year at Barnard College, a Columbia-affiliated undergraduate college.
She was prevented from deporting by filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the Southern District of New York on Monday.
Her legal team was informed early this month that her permanent residence was being revoked, according to the court filing. According to the lawsuit, Chung was the subject of an administrative arrest warrant issued on March 8.
On Tuesday, US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald temporarily halted her deportation. “As of today, Yunseo Chung no longer has to fear and live in fear of ICE coming to her doorstep and abducting her in the night,” Chung’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem said after the ruling.
Momodou Taal
At Cornell University, Momodou Taal is pursuing a doctoral dissertation in Africana studies. He is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and The Gambia. He called on Cornell to stop buying weapons from organizations that sell weapons to Israel last year while organizing pro-Palestine protests. Taal was suspended from Cornell twice last year for his participation in protest activities and encampment.
After Khalil was detained, Taal told Al Jazeera that he had filed a lawsuit against two Trump executive orders, including one aimed at university campuses, along with two other plaintiffs who are both US citizens: a doctoral candidate and a professor from Cornell.
On the morning of March 19, a day after a federal judge scheduled a hearing for Taal’s lawsuit, Taal posted a written statement on X that “unidentified law enforcement” came to his home in Ithaca, New York. He added that Cornell students later observed additional law enforcement vehicles parked nearby, including on the campus.
Citing the example of Ozturk’s arrest, Taal said that there seems to be an emerging pattern, “You are surveilled for a few days and then they pounce essentially to abduct you and kidnap you at some point”.
Taal claimed on March 14 that his visa was suspended.
Alireza Doroudi
Alireza Doroudi, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama, was detained by ICE agents early on Tuesday, the university’s student news website, The Crimson White, reported. While the ICE website says that an Iranian individual named Alireza Doroudi is in ICE custody, it does not specify where he is being detained.
Doroudi, who was Iranian, obtained an F-1 student visa from the US Embassy in Oman in January 2023. His visa was revoked six months after his arrival in the US, The Crimson White reported, citing a group chat that included Iranian students. He was detained for overstaying a visa, but it’s not clear whether that’s the case.
University spokesperson Alex House said that, while international students are valued members of the campus community, the university “has and will continue to follow all immigration laws and cooperate with federal authorities”.
Ranjani Srinivasan
Ranjani Srinivasan, 37, had her student visa revoked by the US Department of State on the night of March 5. She received an email from the US consulate in Chennai, the state where she is a native of. She had been a PhD candidate in urban planning at Columbia University for five years and held a valid visa until 2029.
On March 7, unauthorized immigrants knocked on Srinivasan’s university residence hall apartment, which she had resided in since 2021. The individuals said that they planned to put Srinivasan through proceedings to remove her from the US, before eventually leaving.
After that, Srinivasan moved out of her apartment to a place she had not previously disclosed to Al Jazeera. A day after this, Khalil was arrested. When I realized that I had absolutely no rights in this system, I did. It was only a matter of time before they caught hold of me”, Srinivasan told Al Jazeera. “Casino already knew ICE was operating on campus, but it seemed uninterested in intervening and even appeared to be colluding with them before Mahmoud disappeared,” said Columbia.
On March 9, Columbia unenrolled Srinivasan as a student. Srinivasan left New York for Canada on a visitor visa by March 11 to spend time with her family and friends. Her lawyers informed ICE that Srinivasan had departed from the US.
On March 14, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posted a video of Srinivasan, who was enthralled about “one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers” leaving on their own, on a video posted on her X account.
Srinivasan was stunned at the accusation. Anyone in my immediate vicinity who doesn’t have done anything can just be picked up and made an example of, she said, according to Al Jazeera, if supporting the idea of human rights or ending a genocide is equated with doing Hamas.
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Emma Raducanu is starting to play like it is 2021.
The Briton, who won 10 matches in straight sets to clinch the US Open title, had not been able to win more than three in a row until this week’s Miami Open.
Her run was ended by world number four Jessica Pegula in the quarter-finals, but on Monday Raducanu will return to the world’s top 50 for the first time since September 2022.
Success has come despite a constantly changing sea of faces in the coaching box and a typically challenging start to the year.
The 22-year-old has not had a full-time coach since January, but played with great freedom in Miami.
After the early promise of two Australian Open wins against higher-ranked opponents, Raducanu lost heavily to Iga Swiatek in January before coach Nick Cavaday informed her his health would prevent him from continuing.
February’s spell in the Middle East ended in distressing fashion, as a man who had been following Raducanu around the circuit was evicted from her second-round match and given a restraining order.
Raducanu appeared rudderless for much of that period, although she was rarely short of support. Her strength and conditioning coach Yutaka Nakamura has barely left her side since starting in early December.
Roman Kelecic, a coach from her teenage days, helped out in Abu Dhabi. Jane O’Donoghue, a friend and former LTA coach, was in Doha and Dubai. Tom Welsh was drafted in from the Loughborough Academy as a short-term hire for Indian Wells, only for Vladimir Platenik to usurp him by arriving in California for a hastily arranged trial.
Petchey coached an 18-year-old Andy Murray for 10 months – during which he won his first ATP title – and trained with Raducanu during the pandemic summer of 2020.
Those weeks at the National Tennis Centre in London appear to have left quite an impression on Raducanu. There is a mutual respect and rapport between the two.
O’Donoghue has been a regular confidante for Raducanu, and was the LTA’s national women’s coach until 2019, when she left the sport for pastures new.
Raducanu trusts them and is able to relax in their company, but they both have day jobs.
Petchey is in broadcasting – most notably with the Tennis Channel – and O’Donoghue in finance. She is currently on a sabbatical, but there is no suggestion she wants to return to the far less secure world of tennis coaching on a permanent basis.
Both could offer input but, as things stand, not the type of support Raducanu said she was seeking when speaking to the BBC at Indian Wells.
“Once I have a structure in place and I can fall back on the process again I will feel very set,” she said this month.
“In the Middle East it was very difficult for me because I didn’t really have any direction or structure or which tournaments to play and it was very difficult doing it all on my own.
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Raducanu is part of the Great Britain team which will compete in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round in early April, and will be able to spend the next two weeks working with the LTA coaching team.
But she will need a more lasting plan swiftly.
Her clay-court season could take in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome before the French Open, and there will be very little respite in the schedule before the end of October.
That plan does not need to revolve around one person.
Many top players employ more than one coach, usually because it is very hard for any one individual to commit to more than 30 weeks on the road each year.
Jack Draper ended last summer’s partnership with Wayne Ferreira as he preferred the “one voice” of James Trotman, but now travels to some events with Alex Ward.
Perhaps things could have worked out differently with Cavaday if an additional coach had been brought into the team when his health problems first arose in the spring of 2024.
Exposure to different personalities and ways of thinking has always been appealing to Raducanu, but the period with Cavaday offered her stability and calmness.
Other partnerships fizzled out much more quickly.
Platenik lasted only two weeks. His coaching acumen is widely admired, but his personality did not seem a good match for Raducanu.
One former player compared him to a “freight train”, saying he was intense and opinionated. Platenik says Raducanu told him she was feeling “stressed” when ending the brief collaboration.
Torben Beltz looked an excellent choice, given his Grand Slam success with Angelique Kerber, but Raducanu did not feel he had enough to offer.
Dmitry Tursunov ended their partnership because he thought Raducanu needed to listen to just “one voice”. He referred to “red flags” and a feeling there may be further problems down the line.
Her spell with Sebastian Sachs concluded after operations on both hands and left ankle, which kept her on the sidelines for the second half of 2023.
There did not seem much logic in dispensing of the services of Nigel Sears after Wimbledon 2021, but it is hard to argue with the choice of Andrew Richardson, who then steered her to that historic triumph at the US Open.
Would Raducanu go back to a coach she has previously let go? Sears still looks a good bet and has a proven track record of success with Daniela Hantuchova, Ana Ivanovic and Anett Kontaveit.
He is no longer working with the Australian Olivia Gadecki, and is a regular at the National Tennis Centre in London, where he works with the LTA’s women’s team.
For all her progress in Miami, Raducanu may have a difficult spring and summer without the right personnel around her.
Does she ever throws a covetous glance at Draper’s set-up?
His team looks a thoroughly professional outfit, and some hard decisions have recently been made.
Physio Will Herbert and strength and conditioning coach Steve Kotze are no longer involved. They have been replaced by Shane Annun and Matt Little, who were so integral to Andy Murray’s team.
Prior to this week’s Miami Open, the Briton, who won 10 straight sets games to win the US Open title, had only managed three victories in a row.
Jessica Pegula, the world’s number four, ended her run in the quarter-finals, but Raducanu will make it back to the top 50 on Monday for the first time since September 2022.
Despite a constantly evolving cast of coaches and a typically difficult year-beginning, success has arrived.
The 22-year-old hasn’t had a full-time coach since January, but he had a lot of freedom in Miami.
Before coach Nick Cavaday informed her that her health would prevent him from continuing, Raducanu suffered a significant defeat in the January matchup against Iga Swiatek.
A man who had been following Raducanu around the circuit was removed from her second-round game and given a restraining order as a result of February’s trouble in the Middle East.
Despite being frequently without a lot of support, Raducanu appeared rudderless for the majority of that time. Since beginning in December, Yutaka Nakamura, her strength and conditioning coach, has hardly ever left.
In Abu Dhabi, Roman Kelecic, a coach since her teenage years, gave a helping hand. Former LTA coach and friend Jane O’Donoghue was in Dubai and Doha. Vladimir Platenik usurped Tom Welsh from the Loughborough Academy by bringing him in for a hastily scheduled trial in California, where he had previously been hired for a short-term assignment at Indian Wells.
In the pandemic summer of 2020, Petchey trained with Raducanu and an 18-year-old Andy Murray for 10 months, during which he won his first ATP title.
Raducanu appears to have had a lasting impression during those two weeks spent at the National Tennis Centre in London. The two people have a close relationship and respect for one another.
O’Donoghue has been Raducanu’s frequent confidant up until 2019, when she left the sport for a more casual life.
Raducanu has faith in them and can unwind at work, but they both work from day jobs.
O’Donoghue is in finance, Petchey is in broadcasting, most notably with the Tennis Channel. She is currently taking a sabbatical, but it is not suggested that she wants to permanently return to the less secure world of tennis coaching.
Both could provide input, but as things stand, neither would provide the support Raducanu claimed she needed from the BBC in Indian Wells.
She said this month, “Once I have a structure in place and I can fall back on the process, I will feel very set.”
“Being alone in the Middle East was very difficult for me because I didn’t really have any structure or rules for what tournaments to play.”
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Raducanu will spend the next two weeks working with the LTA coaching team, which is a member of the Great Britain team that will compete in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round in early April.
But she will require a swifter, longer plan.
Before the French Open, there will be very little rest before the end of October due to her clay-court schedule, which could include visits to Stuttgart, Madrid, and Rome.
That strategy doesn’t need to revolve around just one person.
Many of the best players have more than one coach, typically because it is difficult for one person to commit to traveling for more than 30 weeks each year.
Jack Draper canceled his summertime partnership with Wayne Ferreira because he favors James Trotman’s “one voice” and is now taking turns hosting events with Alex Ward.
If Cavaday’s health issues had first arisen in the spring of 2024, things might have changed.
Raducanu has always enjoyed being around various personalities and ways of thinking, but Cavaday’s time together provided her with stability and calm.
Other partnerships quickly ran out, much like that.
Only two weeks were spent on Platenik. Although Raducanu is widely admired, his personality did not seem to be suitable for Raducanu.
He was intense and opinionated, according to a former player, who compared him to a “freight train.” Platinenik claims that Raducanu told him that she was feeling stressed when the brief collaboration came to an end.
Given his success at the Grand Slam with Angelique Kerber, Torben Beltz appeared to be a great choice, but Raducanu didn’t think he had enough to offer.
Due to the fact that Dmitry Tursunov believed Raducanu needed to have “one voice” to listen to, he ended their partnership. He mentioned “red flags” and “a feeling that future issues may arise.”
After having operations on both hands and left ankle, which kept her on the sidelines until the second half of 2023, she left Sebastian Sachs.
After Wimbledon 2021, it seemed logical to dispense Nigel Sears’ services, but Andrew Richardson’s choice, who later led her to that historic victory at the US Open, seemed inconsequential.
Would Raducanu resign from a position she had previously left? With Daniela Hantuchova, Ana Ivanovic, and Anett Kontaveit, Spears still appears to be a good bet.
He regularly attends the National Tennis Centre in London, where he plays for the LTA’s women’s team, but is no longer a part of Olivia Gadecki, an Australian tennis player.
Without the right people around her, Raducanu might face a challenging spring and summer due to her progress in Miami.
Does she ever glance at Draper’s setup indignantly?
His team appears to be a very professional outfit, and some difficult choices have recently been made.
No longer working with physio Will Herbert and strength-training Steve Kotze. Shane Annun and Matt Little, who were so important to Andy Murray’s team, have taken their place.
The opposition in South Sudan claims that First Vice President Riek Machar’s overnight arrest, a long-term adversary of Salva Kiir, has racked up the country’s peace agreement and could lead to a country-wide civil war.
A member of Machar’s party said a convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles had entered his home in the capital of Juba late on Wednesday and had taken him into custody. This marked a startling escalation of a conflict that has been raging there for weeks.
According to Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb, who was reporting from Nairobi, “military vehicles drove into his residence at night and forcefully disarmed all of his guards.” Only Machar is still at the residence after they remove all of the phones and laptops from the property, arrest the guards, and leave them in an unknown location.
According to Webb, “soldiers have been closing the area.” Life continues as usual in other areas of the city. This is the result of weeks of escalated violence that the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLM/IO) describes as a series of attacks by President Kiir’s forces in violation of the peace agreement.
Peace and stability in danger
A power-sharing agreement between Kiir and Machar has been slowly unraveling, putting the civil war that cost around 400,000 lives between 2013 and 2018 at risk.
According to Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, deputy chairman of Machar’s party, “the prospects for peace and stability in South Sudan have now been seriously endangered.”
UNMISS, one of the countries’ representatives, warned that the alleged arrest would put the nation “on the verge of relapsing into widespread conflict.”
In a post on X, the US Department of State on Thursday demanded that Kiir “reverse this action and stop further escalation.”
According to analysts, Kiir, 73, has been working with cabinet reshuffles to ensure Machar’s survival for months.
The agreement of 2018 was focused on two crucial issues, according to Daniel Akech, a senior analyst for International Crisis Group in South Sudan. One goal was to create a constitution that all parties would agree with. Power sharing was the other option that was crucial. And one of the power conflicts involved the opposing sides’ use of military power.
According to Akech, “the president had fired a governor in February who was supposed to be leading Machar’s opposition.” Additionally, he most recently fired the governor of Upper Nile, who was supposed to be working for the opposition.
He responded, “This is obviously a power grab.”
This process is no longer binary, Akech said. Although the president and vice president appear to be the only two actors in the debate, there are many opposition figures. Therefore, it might be very decentralized and involve multiple actors, making it difficult to extinguish the flames if this escalates into violence.
