{"id":13291,"date":"2025-04-12T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13291\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:45:18","slug":"emma-raducanu-in-talks-over-appointing-andy-murrays-former-coach-but-major-stumbling-block-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13291\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu in talks over appointing Andy Murray’s former coach but major stumbling block emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu’s search for a new coach may be about to come to an end.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the BBC, the former US Open Champion <\/a>is in talks with Mark Petchey over a full-time coaching role.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Raducanu may have settled on a new coachCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Petchey was in Raducanu’s coaching box alongside Jane O’Donoghue for the 22-year-old’s impressive run to the quarter-finals of the Miami Open <\/p>\n

It was the first time Raducanu had reached the final eight of a WTA 1,000 event in her career and was also the most wins she had picked up in a single tournament since her triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2021.<\/p>\n

However, a major hurdle that could prevent a long-term partnership being formalised is Petchey’s role as a commentator for the Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n

Raducanu and Petchey previously worked together during the pandemic in 2020 at the National Tennis Centre in London.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old would not be the first British grand slam champion Petchey has coached.<\/p>\n

Petchey, 54, previously coached Murray for 10 months when the Scot was 18.<\/p>\n

Under Petchey’s tutelage, Murray won his first ATP title in San Jose in 2006.<\/p>\n

Murray reeled off the scalps of former grand slam champions Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt on his way to glory in San Jose.<\/p>\n

Should Raducanu and Petchey come to an agreement, the 54-year-old would be her first full-time coach after Nick Cavaday stepped down from the role in January due to health reasons.<\/p>\n

Raducanu spent two weeks working with Vladimir Platenik through Indian Wells but the Brit ended the partnership<\/a> on the eve of the Miami Open.<\/p>\n

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Petchey (right) helped Raducanu enjoy her deepest run at a WTA 1,000 eventCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old described Platenik as ‘very serious and very professional’ but cautioned the pair still needed to get to know each other better on and off the court.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC, Platenik said he fully understood why Raducanu wanted to call time on their two-week trial.<\/p>\n

“The world is looking at her after the US Open [which she won in 2021] and everybody is expecting – including herself – what she is going to do next,” Platenik said.<\/a><\/p>\n

“So for me it’s absolutely understandable that she’s under a lot of pressure. She told me she was feeling stressed.<\/p>\n

“There are no hard feelings from my side. She finished the relationship in a fair way, maybe too quickly, but this is tennis, this is sport. We need to respect that.<\/p>\n

“She was not feeling okay, and that was her decision. I didn’t want to go into deeper communication about that. I think the player needs to feel good, and the player needs to make a decision.<\/p>\n

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The 22-year-old hasn’t had a full-time coach since January<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you make a good decision, and sometimes bad.”<\/p>\n

Despite the split, Platenik confirmed he would be open to a reunion with Raducanu in the future.<\/p>\n

But there may not be a need for that should Raducanu and Petchey reach an agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu’s search for a new coach may be about to come to an end. According to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5233,1070,2998,8977,8976,79,1068,8978,5838,16,15,8642],"class_list":{"0":"post-13291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-murray","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-latest","11":"tag-mark-petchey","12":"tag-next-coach","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tennis-channel","16":"tag-tennis-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114324119499058006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}