Mark Petchey confirms it is true that Emma Raducanu can be a bit stubborn at times but also highlighted that some of the claims made against her are simply not true since he absolutely loved coaching the 21-year-old.
Before the British tennis star became popular or even known on the WTA Tour, she worked for 10 months with Andy Murray’s former coach Petchey. After ending her partnership with the former world No. 80, she also briefly worked with Nigel Sears during 2021 Wimbledon and she was with Andrew Richardson when she famously won the US Open as a qualifier.
But shortly after her historic win at Flushing Meadows, Raducanu shockingly decided to fire the coach who guided her to a maiden Grand Slam win. However, that turned out to be just the beginning of her frequent coaching changes as Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov and Sebastian Sachs also had brief stints with the Briton between early 2022 and mid-2023.
The criticism surrounding her constant coaching changes is well-documented and some strong claims were made against her, like the one that she was too hard to work with. In one of her interviews, the former world No. 10 defended herself by once revealing that there were certain questions to which her coaches couldn’t give an answer.
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