{"id":320393,"date":"2025-08-05T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320393\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:45:13","slug":"emma-raducanus-new-coach-was-axed-by-world-no-36-who-made-worrying-comment-after-split-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320393\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu’s new coach was axed by world No.36 who made worrying comment after split | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> has made a bold decision by bringing Francis Roig on board as part of her coaching staff. While the Spaniard enjoyed nearly two decades of success as part of Rafael Nadal<\/a>‘s backroom team, a subsequent spell with current world No.36 Matteo Berrettini<\/a> turned out to be short-lived, and a remark from the Italian after they went their separate ways may give Raducanu cause for concern.<\/p>\n

The British women’s No.1 has enjoyed an impressive string of tournament results since working with coach Mark Petchey on an informal basis, including runs to the Citi Open semi-finals and the quarter-finals of Queen’s and the Miami Open.<\/p>\n

But Petchey retains a number of TV commitments which prevent him from coaching Raducanu on a full-time basis. And the 22-year-old has now moved to appoint Roig on a contract until the end of the year following a successful trial after Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roig helped coach Nadal, along with the Spaniard’s uncle Toni, between 2005 and 2022. The following year he partnered up with former Wimbledon<\/a> finalist Berrettini, but while his association with Nadal was long-lasting, his next assignment was all over in less than 12 months.<\/p>\n

And Berrettini’s comments on the split may offer a warning to Raducanu, as he admitted that he and Roig ‘saw things differently’.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t an easy choice, but it was mutual,” he said in October. “He has helped me a lot on this journey back, helped me improve, but it’s true that we saw some things differently.<\/p>\n

“It was a completely professional decision, so I truly thank him for everything he did for me; we have had a successful year. Now it’s time to turn the page towards a new chapter, hopefully with the best waiting in the future.”<\/p>\n

Raducanu put together another respectable run in her last outing at the Canadian Open. She beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Peyton Stearns in straight sets in Montreal before coming unstuck against this year’s Wimbledon<\/a> runner-up, Amanda Anisimova, in the third round.<\/p>\n

The defeat has dropped Raducanu down to 38th in the live WTA rankings and left her with work to do to secure a top-32 seeding for this month’s US Open. She therefore needs a positive run at the upcoming WTA 1000 event in Cincinnati, where the ranking points on offer could boost her chances of securing easier early-round draws at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has made a bold decision by bringing Francis Roig on board as part of her coaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[116150,1070,27374,115666,5837,86388,44509,4296,116149,79,1068,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-320393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-berrettini","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-emma-raducanu-coach","11":"tag-francis-roig","12":"tag-matteo-berrettini","13":"tag-nadal","14":"tag-raducanu","15":"tag-rafael-nadal","16":"tag-roig","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tennis","19":"tag-tennis-news","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114977408590093059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320393","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=320393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}