{"id":458235,"date":"2026-03-05T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:45:17","slug":"mark-petchey-explains-emma-raducanu-plan-as-pair-reunite-for-third-time-after-split-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458235\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Petchey explains Emma Raducanu plan as pair reunite for third time after split | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Andy Murray<\/a>\u2019s former coaches, Petchey worked with Raducanu before her 2021 breakthrough, and rejoined the team on an ad hoc basis last year when the Brit was left without a full-time coach. She now finds herself back in the same position after calling it quits with Roig, and the British coach and pundit has stepped in once again for Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

As he did last year, Petchey is juggling his informal coaching role with his full-time broadcasting commitments. A commentator and pundit for Tennis Channel, the 55-year-old told the channel\u2019s Big T Podcast that they had no real plan, other than to \u201cfigure out\u201d where this iteration of their partnership goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was Oscar Wilde who said, a second marriage is the triumph of optimism over experience. I don\u2019t know what the great Oscar would have said about a third time going back in this situation!\u201d Petchey joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Emma, listen, we\u2019ve always stayed in touch. I felt like last year we got to a stage where this kind of work, the media work, was just overwhelming. And trying to do the right things, being a coach, I didn\u2019t want anything to fall through the cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Petchey and Raducanu first reunited at the Miami Open last March, and he continued to help the world No. 24 until she hired Roig in August. Since splitting with Roig in January, Raducanu has been travelling with hitting partner Alexis Canter and physiotherapist Emma Stewart. And Petchey once again answered the call when she was left without a coach again.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cShe found herself in a situation, once again, where she didn\u2019t really have somebody that she could lean into. Didn\u2019t like where her game had been heading, and the flare went up, and I said I\u2019d come to Indian Wells early, and try and help her. And that\u2019s kind of where we are.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know everybody feels that there\u2019s this \u2013 there isn\u2019t really this big plan at this particular stage. This is the plan, is day by day, we\u2019ll figure out where it goes. I love her to bits and I\u2019ll try and help her, but obviously will have to try and figure out how that works around these other commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Andy Murray\u2019s former coaches, Petchey worked with Raducanu before her 2021 breakthrough, and rejoined the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6962,25258,30732,36423,165024,101,118,872,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-emma-raducanu-coach","tag-indian-wells","tag-mark-petchey","tag-raducanu-petchey","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}