{"id":368583,"date":"2025-08-24T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368583\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:23:13","slug":"emma-raducanus-revelation-on-new-coach-francisco-roig-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368583\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu’s revelation on new coach Francisco Roig | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has pulled back the curtain on the positive relationship she shares with her new coach<\/a> Francisco Roig. The British star is set to face Japan’s Ena Shibahara in the first round of the US Open<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Raducanu first made a name for herself at Flushing Meadows in 2021 when she stunned the tennis world by winning her maiden Grand Slam title<\/a> at just 18-years-old. Since that triumph she has struggled with injuries, consistency and keeping a constant coach by her side, going through seven in the last four years alone. Raducanu’s<\/a> latest coach, Roig, has replaced caretaker mentor Mark Petchey, who has since spoken out on the split<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roig enjoyed a heavily successful stint working with Rafael Nadal<\/a> for all of the Spanish superstar’s 22 of Grand Slam titles and, speaking to Sky Sports<\/a>, Raducanu has lifted the lid on working with the 57-year-old.<\/p>\n

She said: “I think we get on really well. I think we fit great. He is so experienced, and we have been doing a lot of hours on the practice court, which I think has been helping me, and we both like spending time on the court, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n

“But he also knows when to have fun and switch off, and that’s important. It is not just constant seriousness. We work, but we also laugh.”<\/p>\n

Roig’s constructive influence on Raducanu seems to be bearing fruit already. Having only taken up the position in August, Raducanu has since narrowly lost out to Aryna Sabalenka <\/a>at the Cincinnati Open, in a deciding set, with the world No. 1 requiring a tiebreaker to win.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on appointing Roig, she said: “After Wimbledon<\/a>, we always knew it was going to be difficult to keep things going forward with his commitments and everything.<\/p>\n

“After that, I just asked (agent) Jill (Smoller), who is looking after me, and I was like, \u2018Oh, do we have any more ideas?\u2019 Because ideally I wanted to come into the U.S. swing knowing I had someone in a coach. That’s how it happened.”<\/p>\n

Raducanu’s new positive outlook was perhaps underscored by her support for the US Open mixed doubles tournament where she partnered with Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>. Such was her enjoyment, Raducanu has called on Wimbledon<\/a> to introduce their own version of the all-star mixed doubles event after the “success” of the new event.<\/p>\n

The British No.1 lost her only match with five-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz against fellow Brit Jack Draper<\/a> and Jessica Pegula. Despite the loss, Raducanu would like to see mixed doubles introduced in the other three grand slams.<\/p>\n

She said: “I think it would be so fun if all the Slams got involved and did something similar, even if it was not the exact same format. I think it was a huge success. I think so many fans got involved, so many people watched and tuned in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has pulled back the curtain on the positive relationship she shares with her new coach Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[1070,116472,79,1068,31635,16,15,18056],"class_list":{"0":"post-368583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-francisco-roig","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tennis-section","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081131211433959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368583","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=368583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}