{"id":95000,"date":"2025-07-26T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:52:15","slug":"barry-cowan-assesses-emma-raducanus-chances-of-success-at-the-us-open-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95000\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Cowan assesses Emma Raducanu’s chances of success at the US Open this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Emma Raducanu has seen her US Open chances rated mid-way through her impressive run at the Washington Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been a mesmeric week thus far from the 22-year-old, who has soared into the semi-finals, beating stars like Maria Sakkari and Naomi Osaka on her way to that stage.<\/p>\n

After a really tough few years after the greatest triumph of her career, it finally feels like Emma Raducanu<\/a> is on the right path towards consistency and fitness. <\/p>\n

For that, she can thank Mark Petchey, who has helped spearhead this turnaround since uniting with his compatriot in April.<\/p>\n

And now, speaking exclusively to Tennishead<\/strong>, Barry Cowan gave his thoughts on the potential split between coach and player, whilst also rating Raducanu\u2019s chances at the upcoming US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barry Cowan makes Emma Raducanu US Open prediction<\/strong><\/p>\n

We first sought to get his thoughts on the imminent US Open, which remains the site of Raducanu\u2019s greatest-ever success: her 2021 title.<\/p>\n

Naturally, nobody expects her to mimic such an impossible feat, but there is certainly cause for optimism.<\/p>\n

\"EmmaPhoto by TPN\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cowan certainly thinks there\u2019s a chance she could impress, as he first admitted: \u201cYeah, I think grass and fast hard courts are her best surfaces. I think the reason for that is that she is a great timer of a tennis ball. And when she won the US Open, she predominantly played her tennis on the baseline and used her great timing to hit the ball early and rush her opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, on the slower hard courts, on the clay courts, it\u2019s a totally different type of style that is required, but yeah, I mean, she can do well at the US Open, but I think that the women\u2019s tour is something where I do feel, you know, I look back to Washington last year as a good example. I thought she\u2019d played a great in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then went further in depth about her Washington Open<\/a> campaign thus far, and last year\u2019s fine run as well: \u201cShe played two really good matches, she won, she built momentum, she lost narrowly to [Paula] Badosa in the quarter-finals, and then she didn\u2019t play after that until the US Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you can\u2019t expect to play, you know, one great week and then not play for three or four weeks and then pick it up. At 30 years of age or 35 years of age, if you\u2019re a [Novak] Djokovic or further back, Serena Williams, that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for Raducanu, she needs matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Raducanu has enjoyed deep runs in both the singles and doubles this week, which has pleased Cowan: \u201cOn the other side of it, I\u2019m pleased that she\u2019s playing doubles this week. I think that\u2019s also important, because ultimately, the age she\u2019s at, her game, she should be looking to try and improve it week in, week out, and try and close that gap.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is not, right now, a top 10 player, a top 20 player. I know she was, but it was kind of the outlier because of what she did at the US Open. So I totally disregard what happened previously with her ranking.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you know, right now, if she were to get a seeded position for the US Open, given where she was at the start of the year, I would say she\u2019s absolutely ahead of probably where she was eight months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barry Cowan assesses Emma Raducanu\u2019s coaching situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from that, we sought to gather Cowan\u2019s opinion on the coaching situation unfolding within the 22-year-old\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

After all, Petchey admitted he could not continue coaching Raducanu<\/a>, effectively confirming their split. And yet, they inexplicably have yet to confirm this separation.<\/p>\n

Cowan was full of insight on this topic, and he began by claiming: \u201cWell, the thing with Raducanu is, personally, and I\u2019ve said this openly, that she\u2019s trying to go against history. I believe in history, and history will tell us that players of that age, the development age between 19 and 23, I think you need a consistent message. I think you need the same coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"EmmaPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He did try to sympathise with Raducanu, as he continued: \u201cNow, sometimes that\u2019s not always possible. So there\u2019s no point sticking with a coach for a year or two or three if literally you hate each other, there\u2019s no chemistry, but ideally, you do want that period where it\u2019s a consistent message.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, what I\u2019ve tried to understand, it\u2019s her end of it, and she has always believed, you know, right from very young age, from the juniors, and obviously going through the US Open which she won, she\u2019s believed in having coaches for a short period of time, getting the information from that coach and then moving on. My view is, you\u2019re going against history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cowan was keen to reinforce that he has been impressed with the new British number one, assuring us: \u201cI do think she\u2019s had a really good year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s built momentum. I think that, you know, forget those big matches. Forget the [Iga] Swiatek in Australia, [Iga] Swiatek at the French and [Aryna] Sabalenka at Wimbledon. I thought she played very well at Wimbledon, and so many other bigger matches that she\u2019s played.<\/p>\n\nRound<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSemi-final<\/td>\nAnna Kalinskaya<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQuarter-final<\/td>\nMaria Sakkari<\/td>\n6-4, 7-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound of 16<\/td>\nNaomi Osaka<\/td>\n6-4, 6-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound of 32<\/td>\nMarta Kostyuk<\/td>\n7-6 (4), 6-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Emma Raducanu\u2019s 2025 Washington Open run so far\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what you\u2019re looking at from Raducanu is ideally you\u2019re seeing that improvement in the lower-tier tournaments. I know she\u2019s done everything upside down. She\u2019s won the major before winning on the tour. But I do feel that these tournaments like this week in Washington, like Eastbourne in the week before Wimbledon, like some of the other tournaments leading into the Masters and the majors. I think those are the tournaments where she\u2019s got to be looking, if she is going to get to the top ten, top 20, those are the tournaments she needs to be looking to convert those into semi-finals, finals and wins. And as of yet, she hasn\u2019t had that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He finished by giving his conclusion on the Petchey-Raducanu saga, stating: \u201cAnd the third part of your question in terms of the coach, you know, obviously, she\u2019s in Washington this week. She\u2019s not with a coach.<\/p>\n

\"MarkPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the way the tour\u2019s structured now, it is a period of five weeks where, because you\u2019ve got calendar in Cincinnati that are now spread over three weeks, I think if you don\u2019t get the necessary results, that\u2019s where you need the coach to really work on your game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd right now, she hasn\u2019t got that because she hasn\u2019t got a coach with her in Washington. Now, I don\u2019t know whether that has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has seen her US Open chances rated mid-way through her impressive run at the Washington Open.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62608,10115,1690,62,1464,67,132,68,10118],"class_list":{"0":"post-95000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-barry-cowan","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-exclusives","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921520782364461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}