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<\/a><\/p>\nAfterward, Raducanu clarified her partnership with new coach Francisco Roig, who coached Rafa Nadal for several years.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Briton said she is committed to working with Roig until at least the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Despite today\u2019s lopsided defeat, Raducanu said their three-week partnership has been \u201cpretty successful\u201d and she\u2019s looking forward to getting back to work with Roig.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, right now we\u2019re working through to the end of the year. I\u2019m looking forward to just getting back to work really,\u201d Raducanu said. \u201cIt\u2019s only been three weeks, but I think it\u2019s been a pretty successful three weeks in a sense that we\u2019ve made good improvements.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are certain parts of my game which have gotten better for sure. Today, you know, my weaknesses were highlighted, but I think it\u2019s only been three weeks, and he can\u2019t really work miracles, you know. So I know we\u2019re doing good work, and I just look forward to continuing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old Spaniard was a long-time coaching member of Nadal\u2019s team, later coached Matteo Berrettini and has experience coaching on the WTA Tour as well. Roig, who reached a career-high rank of No. 60 on the ATP Tour, also coached 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens.<\/p>\n
Roig succeeded Mark Petchey, who had been coaching Raducanu on an informal basis since the Miami Open. Tennis Channel analyst Petchey had agreed to work with Raducanu through the end of the grass-court season, but could not commit to coaching her full time because of his television commentary obligations.<\/p>\n
Working with Petchey, who previously coached Andy Murray, Raducanu registered some of her best results in years.<\/p>\n
In her brief tenure with Roig, Raducanu has worked the wide serve on the deuce side effectively to set up her first strike and has tried to spread the court with her shots. Additionally, Roig has tried to follow the Petchey model of ensuring Raducanu has fun with the process. Raducanu has shared shots on social media of her playing soccer and golf with coach Roig.<\/p>\n
The challenge for the 2021 US Open champion is working wisely on the practice court without over-training and running the risk of injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think with me I want to train, like, a lot, and I practice quite a lot of hours, but I think at the same time it can put a lot of wear on my body,\u201d Raducanu said. \u201cSo I think now I\u2019m doing a good job. Pretty strong and fit overall for the most part. I\u2019m not getting injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s where I need to be reined in, and I need the people around me to kind of pull me back and say, We\u2019ve done enough. That\u2019s how I kind of manage my load, because I always want to do more and practice more and play and compete more too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 29, 2025Photo credit: Clive Brunskill\/Getty Emma Raducanu\u2019s US Open run hit a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-105163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}