Emma Raducanu is looking for a new coach…again

BBC Sport running another story about Emma Raducanu, the British tennis player US Open Champion in 2021, once again looking for a new coach.

Raducanu parted company with coach Francisco Roig after January’s Australian Open — the Spaniard was the seventh full-time coach Raducanu had worked with since her US Open win.

There is an unpleasant undercurrent to a lot of the comments BTL, and not a lot of understanding of how player-coach relationships can go wrong. I do wonder how many of them have ever coached, at any level, let alone a Grand Slam winner?

There is a lot of criticism of Raducanu’s intransigence — she must be difficult to work with, if she can’t stick with a coach for any length of time. But it must be a possibility that Radacanu has been too compliant, trying to modify her game as each new coach tells her.

Ironically, if she can’t find “the one” coach who can deliver exactly the right words & tactics (right for her), every time, perhaps a part-time arrangement will work better. Find a coach prepared to park his or her ego, not try to change the player, and just help Raducanu be her best version of herself.

She did won the US Open, after all!