{"id":60572,"date":"2025-08-05T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:43:08","slug":"what-rafael-nadal-once-said-about-emma-raducanus-new-coach-francis-roig-after-they-stopped-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60572\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rafael Nadal once said about Emma Raducanu\u2018s new coach Francis Roig after they stopped working together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emma Raducanu has officially announced that Francis Roig will be her full-time coach going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/emma-raducanu-explains-what-went-wrong-with-her-previous-coaches-that-mark-petchey-has-now-fixed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu had been working with Mark Petchey<\/a>, who helped her produce some of her best results since winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/mark-petchey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petchey<\/a> will still be in contact with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu<\/a>, his media commitments do not enable him to travel on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA Tour<\/a> full time.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Raducanu\u2019s main coach will be Francis Roig, who worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/rafael-nadal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> for 17 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227168964-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Raducanu of the United Kingdom looks on during a women's singles match against Anna Kalinskaya on day 6 of the Mubadala Citi DC Open 2025 at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.\" \/>Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesWhat Rafael Nadal said about Francis Roig after parting ways in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Roig had worked with Nadal as an assistant coach to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/toni-nadal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Nadal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-moya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Moya<\/a> between 2005 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Their run together officially concluded at the end of the 2022 season, but Nadal had nothing other than positive things to say about Roig after announcing they were parting ways.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal also suggested that the reason behind the departure from his team was due to Roig wanting to partake in new ventures into coaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to inform you that Francis Roig is leaving my team and starting a new personal project as a coach,\u201d Nadal said on social media at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started joining the team and worked with us together with my Uncle Toni and later with Carlos Moy\u00e1 and recently Marc L\u00f3pez. Francis has been an important person in my career and I am very grateful to him for all these years of work and friendship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started working together I was a child and together with my Uncle Toni, we started on the circuit. Francis is a great coach who knows tennis very well and has helped me a lot to get better and better. I only have words of gratitude and I wish him all the luck in the world in his new project!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Os quer\u00eda comunicar que Francis Roig deja el equipo. Francis ha sido una persona importante en mi carrera y le estoy muy agradecido por todos estos a\u00f1os de trabajo y amistad. Cuando empezamos a trabajar juntos yo era un ni\u00f1o y junto a mi t\u00edo Toni, empez\u00e1bamos en el circuito. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qeW0wFQTpa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qeW0wFQTpa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelNadal\/status\/1603708037147107332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 16, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> Francis Roig\u2019s career highlights as a coach<\/p>\n<p>Roig is a very decorated coach, and was working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/throwbacks\/the-question-rafael-nadal-was-asked-after-he-won-the-career-grand-slam-which-he-thought-was-stupid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nadal for all of his Grand Slam title victories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was never the main coach of Nadal, the only title that he ever won without Roig was his first in Sopot in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>After Roig left Nadal\u2019s team to take on new coaching endeavours, he went on to work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/former-grand-slam-finalist-is-under-threat-of-early-retirement-after-latest-injury-setback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They were unable to find any success at the major tournaments, but Roig did help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/matteo-berrettini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berrettini<\/a> win three clay court titles in their short tenure together before parting ways at the end of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Roig CoachingRafael Nadal (2005-2022)Matteo Berrettini (2023-2024)Titles913Best Grand Slam ResultWon 22 titlesSecond Round (Wimbledon and US Open 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Roig will now make his first venture into the WTA Tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/opinion\/emma-raducanu-is-on-the-verge-of-a-big-breakthrough-before-the-us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu, who is seeking a seeded spot at the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their first tournament together will be at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/cincinnati-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a>, which gets underway on Thursday, August 7.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has officially announced that Francis Roig will be her full-time coach going forward. 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