{"id":509038,"date":"2026-04-02T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:10:08","slug":"iga-swiatek-appoints-francisco-roig-rafael-nadal-and-emma-raducanus-former-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509038\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek appoints Francisco Roig, Rafael Nadal and Emma Raducanu&#8217;s former coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek will work with Francisco Roig &#8211; the former coach of Rafael Nadal and Emma Raducanu &#8211; as she looks to turn around her inconsistent form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poland&#8217;s Swiatek has struggled to find her rhythm in 2026, exiting the Australian Open and Indian Wells at the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old tends to perform better on clay, having won four of her six Grand Slam titles at the French Open, and has drafted in Roig in preparation for next month&#8217;s event in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swiatek confirmed the partnership on Instagram, writing &#8220;welcome to the team, Francisco! Very excited for this new chapter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain&#8217;s Roig coached Briton Raducanu for five months between 2025 and 2026, but is best known for his 17-year stint with 22-time Grand Slam champion Nadal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number four Swiatek had been working under Wim Fissette, who helped her win a first Wimbledon title in July, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c2ev7jx7lzzo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parted ways<\/a> after Swiatek&#8217;s first-round loss at the Miami Open in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek will work with Francisco Roig &#8211; the former coach of Rafael Nadal and Emma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509038","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=509038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}