{"id":117446,"date":"2025-08-29T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117446\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:30:12","slug":"what-mark-petchey-said-emma-raducanus-biggest-weakness-was-while-coaching-her-earlier-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117446\/","title":{"rendered":"What Mark Petchey said Emma Raducanu\u2019s biggest weakness was while coaching her earlier this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Enjoying her best year on tour since 2021, Emma Raducanu seems to have finally sorted her coaching team.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Raducanu added Mark Petchey<\/a> to her team, as the pair immediately found success, reaching the quarterfinals of the Miami Open.<\/p>\n

They continued to pick up big wins together, although Petchey<\/a> couldn\u2019t commit to becoming Raducanu\u2019s full-time coach due to prior media arrangements.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Raducanu hired Francisco Roig<\/a> as her head coach in the lead-up to the US Open, as Petchey departed.<\/p>\n

\"FranciscoPhoto by Daniel Kopatsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Making some minor adjustments to her game, Rafael Nadal\u2019s former coach has guided Raducanu<\/a> to the third round in New York.<\/p>\n

Watching Raducanu\u2019s second-round win at the US Open, former British star Laura Robson<\/a> recalled a conversation she had with Petchey earlier this year, where he highlighted the biggest problem facing the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n

Mark Petchey told Laura Robson that Emma Raducanu struggles to \u2018match up shot by shot\u2019 with top players<\/p>\n

During her post-match analysis for Sky Sports, Robson shared what Petchey told her about Raducanu when they were working together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very similar to a conversation I had over the summer with Mark Petchey when he was working with Emma [Raducanu], and they were trying to figure out what sort of player she was going to be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"MarkPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere he felt she was at that time was that she wasn\u2019t hitting big enough, that she was trying to be an aggressive player, but she couldn\u2019t match up shot by shot against the likes of [Aryna] Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MatchWinnerLoserScore2025 Cincinnati Open \u2013 R32Aryna SabalenkaEmma Raducanu7-6, 4-6, 7-62025 Wimbledon \u2013 R32Aryna SabalenkaEmma Raducanu7-6, 6-42024 Indian Wells \u2013 R32Aryna SabalenkaEmma Raducanu6-3, 7-5Emma Raducanu\u2019s head-to-head record against Aryna Sabalenka<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what can she do really well?<\/p>\n

\u201cShe moves really well, she counter punches really well, she\u2019s got the ability to change the placement up, so she can redirect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re never going to out-hit Sabalenka, so you have to figure out different ways where you are going to put pressure on, but still do it consistently and not a Madison Keys<\/a>-type vibe where you\u2019re just going all out, all the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s finding that balance at the moment, and it seems like she\u2019s enjoying that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly looked like Raducanu found the balance in round two, as she dominated her Indonesian opponent.<\/p>\n

Laura Robson praises \u2018really solid\u2019 Emma Raducanu performance against Janice Tjen<\/p>\n

Raducanu made light work of Indonesia\u2019s Janice Tjen in the second round of the US Open<\/a>, knocking her out in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Robson was impressed with Raducanu\u2019s performance and the way she approached what could have been a \u2018tricky\u2019 match.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a really solid performance, and that was a match that if you start to overthink, it could have been trickier, because you\u2019re playing someone who you know has played a tonne of tennis, has qualified, won a round, probably playing the best tennis of her career, and then all of a sudden, that expectation and pressure is all on your shoulders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut [Emma] Raducanu just came out with such a purpose, first game of the match you saw the intent with the ground strokes, she just had that much more in every shot today than [Janice] Tjen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brit also took the time to give Tjen, who won her first Grand Slam main draw match in New York, her flowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a great event it\u2019s been for Tjen, what a year it\u2019s been for her, she\u2019s going to be on the rise and in the top 100 in no time,\u201d said Robson.<\/p>\n

\"JanicePhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Pleased with Raducanu\u2019s efforts in the second round, Robson is already looking forward to round three.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were pleasantly surprised by what we got from Emma Raducanu today, she\u2019s been playing consistent tennis. You could tell that Tjen, by the end of the match was almost second guessing her game plan, especially on the forehand side, she didn\u2019t know where to go with it, that\u2019s when the unforced errors creep in even more,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a really solid second-round match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all getting a little bit excited at the prospect of playing [Elena] Rybakina<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In what must be the tie of the third round, Raducanu will play Elena Rybakina on Friday, August 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enjoying her best year on tour since 2021, Emma Raducanu seems to have finally sorted her coaching team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1701,75906,14187,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-117446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-laura-robson","10":"tag-mark-petchey","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}