{"id":456524,"date":"2026-02-03T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:07:07","slug":"super-aggressive-emma-raducanu-wins-first-game-after-coach-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456524\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Super aggressive’ Emma Raducanu wins first game after coach split"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> bounced back from her split with coach Francisco Roig to ease past Greet Minnen<\/a> in straight-sets at the Winners Open in Romania.<\/p>\n

The 2021 US Open champion suffered a disappointing 7-6 (3), 6-2 defeat to Amanda Potapova in the second round of the Australian Open last month.<\/p>\n

Raducanu’s partnership with Rafael Nadal<\/a>‘s old coach Roig subsequently ended after her early exit in Melbourne, but the top seed in Transylvania produced an accomplished display to get the better of Minnen by a 6-0, 6-4 score.<\/p>\n

In a comprehensive showing, Raducanu sent down three aces and forced four breaks of serve across 70 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old will face Kaja Juvan<\/a> of Slovenia next in the second round of the WTA 250 event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu is looking to build upon her positive showing in 2025.\u00a0Alex Nicodim\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Raducanu, whose father is Romanian, said in her on-court interview: “I’m very happy.<\/p>\n

“I think I played a great match, super aggressive from the beginning and the crowd from the minute I walked out was incredible so thank you very much for all the support.<\/p>\n

“Today I think was a great performance. I really wanted to put my game out on the court, it’s a little bit easier indoors so I am really pleased I could use that.”<\/p>\n

– Way-too-early Grand Slam predictions for the rest of 2026<\/a>
– The art and the agony of the runner-up speech in tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu bounced back from her split with coach Francisco Roig to ease past Greet Minnen in straight-sets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-456524","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\/456524","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=456524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}