'Be comfortable in your own identity': Andre Agassi hands Emma Raducanu advice

[p]Eight-time Grand Slam winner [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/agassi-andre/dpmh3fNO/"]Agassi[/a] ‌endured a four-year barren spell between winning the 1995 Australian Open and 1999 ‌French Open, during which his ⁠ranking fell ‌to 141st in the world.[/p][p]The American wrote ​about his battle to regain his form in his autobiography ​in 2009. Briton [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/raducanu-emma/YmIZde1B/"]Raducanu[/a], 23, has not reached the last eight of a ⁠major since ​her shock 2021 US Open triumph.[/p][image alt="American legend Andre Agassi" id="194172a5-c122-4870-90b4-82e35e434826" credit-line="ABACAPRESS, Abaca Press / Alamy / Profimedia" guid="d85d671c-48f7-43e1-a7b9-3a4a3469305e" original-width="1400" original-height="933" /][p]"[b]I would encourage her to focus on being the best of herself on ‌a daily basis, but don't judge that by results or thinking that somehow you have to be 100%[/b]," Agassi told the BBC on Wednesday.[/p][p]"[b]You have to learn to be 100% of whatever percent you're at (and) be comfortable in your own identity ‌inside of that, not what people ​say[/b]."[/p][p]Japan's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/osaka-naomi/MDM4BKiA/"]Naomi Osaka[/a], who won her ‌fourth Grand Slam in 2021, also took inspiration from Agassi's book last year, when she reached the US Open semi-finals for the first time ⁠in five ⁠years.[/p]