Raducanu and Richardson initially linked up in April for a four-day training stint at the Ferrer Tennis Academy in Spain, where Richardson has been the tennis director for several years.<\/p>\n
She announced they were reuniting on a full-time basis earlier in May and has now confirmed they will work together for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
“We kept on good terms and it was one of those moments when the timing was right,” Raducanu, who initiated the move by sending Richardson a text, told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“He doesn’t care about the noise and is really good at centring me.”<\/p>\n
Raducanu’s first match back under Richardson’s guidance ended in a straight-set defeat by France’s Diane Parry in Strasbourg last week.<\/p>\n
She arrived at Roland Garros having barely played in the past three months because of the lingering effects of a viral illness, but Raducanu resisted the temptation to skip the clay-court major.<\/p>\n
“There was definitely the option to start on the grass straight away,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Putting the miles in the legs on the dirt will help me for next year’s clay-court season, help build up the physical and technical skills, and getting competitive match practice so I’m not starting at ground zero.<\/p>\n
“I’m pleased I made this decision to play and regardless of results I know it is the right one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raducanu and Richardson initially linked up in April for a four-day training stint at the Ferrer Tennis Academy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-659069","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\/659069","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=659069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}