As Emma Raducanu continues to battle along with her ongoing wrist harm, her former health coach has began working with one other younger star in Sebastian Korda. Jez Green is a well-liked alternative among the many prime gamers, beforehand serving to Andy Murray and different ATP professionals. He joined group Raducanu over the low season however the Brit might do with extra steerage from the power and conditioning coach as she makes an attempt to handle her bodily woes.

Raducanu’s ongoing wrist harm got here again to hang-out her this week in Madrid as she was forced to pull out ahead of her opening match. The 20-year-old has been scuffling with the persistent drawback since final summer season, and it beforehand noticed her reduce her 2022 season brief.

The timing of her newest setback was much more unlucky as Raducanu - who was defending 120 factors in Madrid - will fall exterior of the world’s prime 100 within the rankings with lower than a month till the Wimbledon fundamental draw entry cut-off. The Brit is now anticipated to carry talks along with her group earlier than making a choice shifting ahead, with Rome and Roland Garros imminent.

During her harm woes, her previous health coach Jez Green has been working with Korda, who has been affected by a wrist drawback of his personal because the Australian Open. The world No 28 pulled out of his Australian Open quarter-final and solely returned this week in Madrid, shedding his opening match in two tiebreak units.

Raducanu teamed up with Green - who beforehand labored with Murray, Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev - in the course of the low season and made a visible improvement to her physique, constructing extra muscle.

But the previous world No 10 might now wish to take into account bringing the health coach again on board as she continues to battle along with her wrist - one thing Green has loads of expertise in with Thiem and now Korda. As the problem continues to stop Raducanu from coaching and competing often, he may very well be the proper man to provide you with a stable restoration programme.

Raducanu had a glowing review of Green when she spoke to the WTA about their work on the finish of 2022, saying: “Jez is really good, he’s obviously so experienced, he’s worked with some of the top players, he’s been there through the journey with a lot of players who were young and then developed into top, top pros.”

The wrist harm additionally prevented the 20-year-old from practising her tennis for a lot of the low season whereas she targeted totally on power and cardio with Green. At the time, Raducanu herself admitted that two months of labor wasn’t sufficient to “solve [her] entire physical condition.”

“I’m also not ignorant in thinking two months is going to solve my entire physical condition, it’s going to take more time, over a year or two to redevelop,” she mentioned. And now stands out as the time to return to the drafting board with an skilled health coach in her nook to try to sort out her troubling wrist situation as soon as and for all.