Emma Raducanu declares ‘there is no such thing as a time’ and opens up on new teaching set-up
Emma Raducanu is working with one other new coach however has admitted that there’s treasured little time on the WTA Tour to make massive adjustments to her recreation. The 2021 US Open champion has arrived in Doha for the most recent WTA 1000 occasion, the Qatar Open, and seeking to enhance on a run of three straight second-round exits to this point in 2024.
The 21-year-old has reunited with childhood coach Nick Cavaday in a bid to enhance her kind following an injury-plagued 2023. Raducanu underwent wrist and ankle surgeries final May, and through her lay-off break up from Sebastian Sachs.
Now ranked down at 286 on this planet, Raducanu will face Anhelina Kalinina within the first spherical. The Ukrainian will begin clear favorite, ranked herself at 28 and having gained the one earlier assembly between the pair in Madrid two years in the past.
And talking as the primary visitor on the newly launched Sky Sports Tennis channel, Raducanu was open about her new partnership “When you start working with a new coach, they implement new things,” she stated.
“You want to give yourself time to do that, but on the tour, there is no time. So straight after Australia (Australian Open), I went back to London, took two days off to rest and then training right away.
“That’s one thing I’m doing better. After a tournament, if I’ve lost, I don’t need to take four or five days off because I’m too upset or I have a niggle. It’s just straight back to it. Just consistent work and I’m improving little by little.”
Raducanu has been broadly criticised for her constant hiring and firing of coaches ever since her unimaginable Grand Slam win in New York. After the match, she opted to separate from Andrew Richardson, citing the necessity to work with somebody with full-time tour expertise.
She has not gone additional than the second spherical of a Slam since, and final 12 months Richardson finally opened up on the circumstances behind them parting ways. “The reality of the matter is that I had a nine-week trial contract that each Emma and I believed was a good suggestion to see how we’d get on, and it ran via to the tip of the US Open, stopping instantly afterwards,” he informed the Daily Mail.
“There was a period of time after that when I was keen to re-negotiate the contract. I wanted to carry on, and I had a plan that I wanted to put in place for Emma. “We were in the process of re-negotiating, and then I got a brief call from her agent telling me they were going to go in a different direction, and that was the end of it.”