{"id":229742,"date":"2025-10-16T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:28:06","slug":"emma-raducanu-ends-season-early-and-will-keep-coach-francisco-roig-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229742\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu ends season early and will keep coach Francisco Roig next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu won 28 matches this year and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British number one reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way before losing in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The initial agreement with Rafael Nadal&#8217;s former coach was until the end of the season but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu told BBC Sport her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a &#8220;black ops mission&#8221; as they tried to keep the meeting secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raducanu won 28 matches this year and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-229742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229742","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=229742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}