{"id":319876,"date":"2025-08-05T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319876\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:11:22","slug":"emma-raducanu-adds-rafael-nadals-former-coach-francis-roig-to-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319876\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu adds Rafael Nadal\u2019s former coach Francis Roig to team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has added Rafael Nadal\u2019s former coach Francis Roig to her team on a full-time basis before this month\u2019s US Open. <\/p>\n

The 2021 winner at Flushing Meadows has been working with her fellow Briton Mark Petchey on an informal basis since March and enjoyed a positive run of results. However, Petchey\u2019s TV commitments meant he was always unable to become Raducanu\u2019s full-time coach.<\/p>\n

After a trial with Roig, 57, following Wimbledon<\/a>, the 22-year-old will begin work with him in Cincinnati this week after he agreed a contract until the end of 2025. The Spaniard worked alongside Nadal for 17 years.<\/p>\n

\"Rafael<\/p>\n

Roig, left, worked alongside Nadal for many years and more recently was part of Berrettini\u2019s backroom staff<\/p>\n

MICHAEL REGAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Raducanu<\/a> has struggled to settle with a coach in recent years until her part-time work with Petchey started to pay dividends this season.<\/p>\n

A WTA 1000 quarter-final showing at the Miami Open in March was followed by a round-of-16 run at the Italian Open before she made the last eight in the first women\u2019s tournament at Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka proved too strong for Raducanu in the third round at Wimbledon, but this was backed up by a semi-final at the Citi Open as the British No1 targets a seeding at the US Open this month.<\/p>\n

TV commentator Petchey, who worked with Andy Murray at the start of the Scot\u2019s career, revealed in July that Raducanu would need to find a full-time coach soon and she has in Roig.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Petchey, left, said in July that Raducanu would need a full-time coach<\/p>\n

MIKE EGERTON\/PA<\/p>\n

Spanish coach Roig worked with Nadal alongside Nadal\u2019s uncle Toni for the majority of the 22-times grand-slam champion\u2019s career and more recently was part of Matteo Berrettini\u2019s backroom staff.<\/p>\n

Raducanu will continue working with Petchey as well when his schedule allows but turns her focus back to securing a US Open seeding (she must be inside the world\u2019s top 32; at present she is No33) with a strong display at the Cincinnati Open over the next fortnight.<\/p>\n

The teenager Victoria Mboko continued her fairytale run at the Canadian Open as she breezed past Spain\u2019s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

\"Victoria<\/p>\n

Mboko has risen 280 places in the rankings this year<\/p>\n

XINHUA\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Canadian, who knocked out two-times major winner Coco Gauff in the fourth round, impressed again on home soil with a 6-4, 6-2 win in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, will not compete in Cincinnati \u2014 meaning he will head to New York for the US Open with no tennis under his belt since his run to the semi-final of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has added Rafael Nadal\u2019s former coach Francis Roig to her team on a full-time basis before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-319876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114976331751613320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319876","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=319876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}