{"id":1586,"date":"2026-01-11T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:00:11","slug":"former-british-no-1-believes-emma-raducanu-has-made-a-decision-that-could-fire-her-to-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Former British No 1 believes Emma Raducanu has made a decision that could fire her to glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu<\/a> headed into 2026 with injury concerns hovering over her once again, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes she has already made the decision that could fire her back into contention at the top of the game.<\/p>\n

Raducanu\u2019s constantly changing coaching set-up has been a theme for the Brit since her stunning victory at the 2021 US Open<\/a>, as she became the first player to move through qualifying and lift a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

After hiring Francisco Roig as her coach in 2025, she has decided to stick with the experienced operator, who has worked in the Rafael Nadal camp and has also had a spell working with former Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n

Raducanu confirmed their partnership was progressing positively as she extended her agreement with Roig into 2026 and Rusedski believes this is a partnership that can reap rewards for the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer story was a little different for her because all of a sudden, she wins a Slam at 18,\u201d said Rusedski, speaking about Raducanu on the latest episode of Off Court with Greg<\/a>, which will be released on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody has done that in their first three majors apart from the greats of the game, so everyone is thinking Emma Raducanu will be No 1, she can win multiple majors, she can be the new face of the WTA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen she didn\u2019t have the consistency, but now with Francisco Roig, a coach I\u2019ve actually worked with, I think she has that solidity behind her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought she played a pretty good opening match against (Maria) Sakkari in the United Cup. Even though she lost, she looked in pretty good form and if she is physically in good shape, she is trending in the right direction. She is a top 30 player now and I think that partnership (with Roig) is going to last.<\/p>\n

\u201cFransico is a strong character and wouldn\u2019t join Emma\u2019s team unless he thought she could get deep into the second week of Slams and possibly win. I\u2019m excited about this partnership and I\u2019m hoping they will continue for a long period of time and be very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raducanu has had a troubled off-season, with an injury problem hampering her progress, but she has arrived in Hobart to play in the WTA Tour event that precedes the Australian Open in an upbeat mood.<\/p>\n

She has also received the backing of former Wimbledon doubles champion Mark Woodforde<\/a>, who told Tennis365 that he is hopeful of seeing a continued rise up the rankings for Raducanu.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t judge her on that one result at the US Open,\u201d Woodforde told Tennis365 in his role as an ambassador at the Bank of China Hong Kong Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she can replicate what she did in New York, that would be brilliant, but it was probably something that happened too soon, too quickly in her career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that you wouldn\u2019t want it to happen to you, but in a country that has been starved of female players and desperate for her to do well, it must have been very difficult for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was encouraging was that over there were times last year when she seemed to be starting to build the foundation again to show some of that form that was discovered at the US Open a few years back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a hard one to judge right now, but I\u2019m sure UK and British tennis praying on their hands and knees that she is successful. She has put some life back into British women\u2019s tennis and the momentum for players like Katie Boulter has been inspired by the success of Emma Raducanu.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu headed into 2026 with injury concerns hovering over her once again, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes she has already made the decision that could fire her back into contention at the top of the game. Raducanu\u2019s constantly changing coaching set-up has been a theme for the Brit since her stunning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}