{"id":445945,"date":"2026-02-03T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445945\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:07:10","slug":"raducanu-wins-first-match-since-split-from-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445945\/","title":{"rendered":"Raducanu wins first match since split from coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Emma Raducanu enjoyed her first victory since an early exit from the Australian Open &#8211; and subsequent split from coach Francis Roig.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old dominated German Greet Minnen with a 6-0 6-4 success at the Winners Open in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu, the tournament&#8217;s top seed, sent down three aces and forced four breaks of serve across the 70 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>She will next face Slovenia&#8217;s Kaja Juvan on Wednesday in the second round of the WTA 250 event.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 US Open champion was knocked out of the Australian Open in the second round last month after a disappointing 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c620l640jz2o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D#:~:text=Emma%20Raducanu%20looked%20below%2Dpar,55th%2Dranked%20Potapova%20in%20Melbourne.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:defeat by Anastasia Potapova;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">defeat by Anastasia Potapova<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That was followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2l3e18jrzo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:end of her partnership with Spanish coach Roig;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">end of her partnership with Spanish coach Roig<\/a>, which left Raducanu searching for a 10th coach of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fellow Briton Sonay Kartal booked her place in the last 16 of the Abu Dhabi Open with a 6-3 7-6 (10-8) victory over Spain&#8217;s Cristina Bucsa.<\/p>\n<p>She will next face Switzerland&#8217;s top seed Belinda Bencic on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number one Emma Raducanu enjoyed her first victory since an early exit from the Australian Open &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12083,11986,1701,44840,209640,209641,99,428],"class_list":["post-445945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-coach","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-francis-roig","tag-greet-minnen","tag-raducanu","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445945","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=445945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}