Emma Raducanu is currently reflecting after crashing out of the second round of the Australian Open in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Anastasia Potapova overcame the Briton, with the Austrian sailing through to round three with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 triumph at Stadium Australia.
While she'll now be aiming to build on that triumph, Raducanu will undoubtedly already be analysing what went wrong.
Though she has shown glimpses of her quality, she remains a shadow of the player that burst onto the scene by winning the US Open in New York back in 2021.
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Five years on from that triumph, tennis fans are wondering whether they'll ever see her scale those dizzying heights of old.
While Raducanu's dreams of more Grand Slam glory are over, she won't be going home totally empty-handed.
The Briton will return to the UK with $225,000 in prize money, which works out at around £113,211.
Emma Raducanu is currently reflecting after crashing out of the second round of the Australian Open in the early hours of Wednesday morning
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Speaking after her defeat, Raducanu said she would examine her approach to tennis as she seeks to improve in the future.
"I think I'm going to take a few days, get back home and try and just re-evaluate my game a bit," she stated at her post-match press conference.
"Watch it back, see where I can improve. What I have been feeling and also what is visually apparent. I definitely want to feel better on certain shots before I start playing again.
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Five facts for tennis fans | GETTY/PA"I want to be playing a different way, and I think the misalignment with how I'm playing right now and how I want to be playing is something that I just want to work on.
"I think there are definitely pockets of me playing how I want to play, and it comes out in flashes, which is a positive, and maybe more than certain times in my career in the last few years. But it's not how I want to be consistently every day.
"It's not going to fall into place straight away, but the more I work on how I want to be playing, it will be more of my identity every time I step onto the court.
"I need to work at that, but it's not going to happen overnight."
Raducanu is now set to turn her attentions to playing at the Transylvania Open in Cluj-Napoca.
That competition is set to commence on February 1.
Emma Raducanu has walked away from the Australian Open with $225,000 in prize money, which works out at around £113,211
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Raducanu admits she needs to work on 'sticking to her guns' and being aggressive, with that approach previously inspiring her US Open triumph.
"At the end of the day, I just want to hit the ball to the corners and hard," she said.
"I feel like I'm doing all this variety, and it's not doing what I want it to do. I need to just work on playing in a way more similar to how I was playing when I was younger.
"I always just changed direction, took the ball early, and went for it. I do have the ability to do many things on the court, but I feel like as I'm learning all those skills, it's like I need to stick to my guns a bit as well and work on that."