{"id":219642,"date":"2025-06-27T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219642\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:44:09","slug":"emma-raducanu-battered-by-wimbledon-practice-partner-as-coach-put-in-danger-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219642\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu battered by Wimbledon practice partner as coach put in danger | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

She plays Welsh teenage wildcard Mimi Xu in the first round but could then face former Wimbledon<\/a> champion Marketa Vondrousova – who recently won the title in Berlin – in the second round with world No.1 Sabalenka awaiting in the third round.<\/p>\n

Her recent performances against top-class players is not encouraging. The world No.38 took three games off Iga Swiatek<\/a> at the French Open and Coco Gauff<\/a> in Rome.<\/p>\n

Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon<\/a> champion, has slipped down to No.11 in the rankings but she has big groundstrokes and a killer serve. Raduncau struggled, especially early on, with the depth and strength of her hitting.<\/p>\n

One framed backhand from a thunderous Rybakina serve nearly took out the Russian-born Kazakh\u2019s whole entourage watching on the sidelines. Their practice set finished 6-2 with Raducanu\u2019s serve broken twice. Her back issues were not the real problem as she looked lightweight against the Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, she had warmed up with a gentler hit with her coach Mark Petchey on Court 5 at Aorgangi Park. Raducanu\u2019s back looked fine but the health of the 54-year-old was in more danger as he was given the run-around in the midday sun. Let\u2019s say the quality of ball striking was higher on Court 4 between French Open winner Coco Gauff<\/a> and Vondrousova.<\/p>\n

Former British No.1 interspersed shouts of \u201cgood shot\u201d with \u201csorry\u201d but gave the smiling Raducanu lots of encouragement – and technical advice on her forehand. She might need lots of both over the next few days. Petchey was left in need of a long ice-bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She plays Welsh teenage wildcard Mimi Xu in the first round but could then face former Wimbledon champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[8729,1070,8977,79,1068,31635,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-219642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena-rybakina","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-mark-petchey","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-tennis-section","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114757518703764052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219642","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=219642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}