Emma Raducan in interviews with Mark Petchey as British No 2 Sears on a full -time coach | Tennis news

Emma Raducan speaks with Mark Petchey over the role of full -time coaching.

Raducan, Master of the US Open 2021, was since 2021 without a permanent coach with Nick Cavaday, but Petchey appeared as a leading runner who trained with the British 2 during the Pandemic summer of 2020.

Petchey temporarily joined the Raducan team on Miami Open – along with long -term mentor Jane O’Donoghue – where she reached the quarterfinals.

Petchey regularly contributes to the tennis channel, but its impact during the Miami Open was effective because Raducan enjoyed victory over the TOP-10 player Emma Navarro and Qatar Open Champion Amanda Anisimov before he lost with the fourth seed of Jessica Pegula.

Asked what Petchey brought the team, Raducan said, “I think only a relaxed environment, but focused whenever needed.

“I am someone who works really hard and can be really intense but sometimes too intense. I think so it is harder to be extremely concentrated when you need to be on the court of the match because you are concentrated from the first minute to the last.

“So I think I could just turn off and have fun with them and play Spikeball before the match, and we’re just creating some routines. Yeah, they bring little doses of happiness that I think they’re just running, little things.

“I just have them around, people I really believe, yeah, I think that’s probably when I started to feel a little better in court. It translated to court. I was looser.”

Who is Mark Petchey?

Raducan wants to create a bubble when looking for a permanent presence of coaching next to the fitness trainer Yutaka Nakamura.

Petchey reached the world No. 80 in August 1994, while his best performance on Grand Slam came in Wimbledon in 1997 when he lost to Boris Becker in the third round.

Petchey, who trained eighteen-year-old Andy Murray, won his first ATP Tour title of this time, decided to move from work with professional players after moving to America and taking over the role with the tennis channel.

He also worked for Prime, ITV, BBC, Sky Sports, Tennis Australia and others.

Raducan coaches

Raducan stopped working with Nigel Sears after her running until Wimbledon’s second week as a wild card in 2021 and then said goodbye to Andrew Richardson shortly after her fairy -tale run in New York.

She also worked with Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov, Sebastian Sachs and Cavaday, while her last coach lasted only one match with Vladimir Planenik, who said goodbye, shortly after 22 years in the opening round of Indian Wells crashed.

The Slovak coach said the British star “felt stressed”.

“I fully understand Emmo, is not in an easy position. The world looks at it after the US Open and everyone expects themselves, including themselves what to do next,” Plalenik said BBC Sport.

“So it is absolutely understandable to me that he is under great pressure. She told me she felt stressed.

“There are no hard feelings on my part. He has finished the relationship in a fair way, maybe too fast, but this is tennis, that’s sport. We have to respect it.

“She didn’t feel good, and that was her decision. I didn’t want to go to a deeper communication about it.

Where could Raducan continue to play?

Raducan could be the next performance at Madrid Open, where it has a direct entry to the WTA 1000 event, which takes place in La Caja Magica from 21 April to 4 May.

In the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying competition, she decided to play for the UK while withdrawing from the WTA 250 this week to concentrate on the training block.

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