{"id":1645,"date":"2026-01-22T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:00:45","slug":"former-british-no-1-gives-an-alternative-emma-raducanu-verdict-after-her-australian-open-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Former British No 1 gives an alternative Emma Raducanu verdict after her Australian Open exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big questions are being asked about Emma Raducanu\u2019s<\/a> next steps after she offered up intriguing comments after her Australian Open exit, with the future of coach Francisco Roig questions after she suggested her tactics are not producing results.<\/p>\n

Raducanu sparked questions over he next steps after she said she would take time to evaluate where she wanted her game to go after a second round defeat in Melbourne against Anastasia Potapova.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m going to take a few days, get back home and try and just re-evaluate my game a bit,\u201d Raducanu told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch it back, see where I can improve. What I have been feeling and also what is visually apparent. I definitely want to feel better on certain shots before I start playing again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be playing a different way, and I think the misalignment with how I\u2019m playing right now and how I want to be playing is something that I just want to work on.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of the day, I just want to hit the ball to the corners and hard. I feel like I\u2019m doing all this variety, and it\u2019s not doing what I want it to do. I need to just work on playing in a way more similar to how I was playing when I was younger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those comments inevitably sparked debate over the future of Roig in Raducanu\u2019s team, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes the hype around the 2021 US Open champion has a negative impact on her.<\/p>\n

Tennis365 has been given an exclusive clip from the new episode of the Off Court Cuts podcast,<\/a> as Rusedski urged Raducanu to stick with Roig and focus on getting herself fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people were disappointed that Emma lost against Potapova because we were hoping for the rematch against [Aryna] Sabalenka, but I think the press have been a little bit hard on her of late,\u201d began Rusedski.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t have the ideal preparation because in the United Cup, she didn\u2019t start the event and we didn\u2019t know if she was going to make it and the same with the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think physically, from my point of view, that\u2019s where she is struggling. I don\u2019t think she is back to 100 per-cent health and I think sometimes we just put too much expectation on Emma.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speculation around Roig\u2019s future will intensify after Raducanu\u2019s comments, but Rusedski has urged the Brit to stick with the respected coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has a good team around her,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t think Francisco Roig is getting enough credit for what he is doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark Petchey was with Emma at Wimbledon and she had a good run, but since then [with Roig] if you look at the results from Cincinnati all the way in, it\u2019s positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe pushed [Aryna] Sabalenka close and lost 7-6 in the third, she had match points against [Jessica] Pegula, she lost a tight match to Barbora Krejcikova. She had all these good performances, but not the big breakthrough.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can see she is building momentum and I still feel Roig is the right person for her. It\u2019s having that consistency of relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people have been said should not be continuing, but I disagree. I still feel he is the right man for Emma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raducanu has been nursing a foot problem in recent weeks that had a big impact on her pre-season preparations and she will be eager to get fully fit before pondering what comes next in this new season.<\/p>\n

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Big questions are being asked about Emma Raducanu\u2019s next steps after she offered up intriguing comments after her Australian Open exit, with the future of coach Francisco Roig questions after she suggested her tactics are not producing results. Raducanu sparked questions over he next steps after she said she would take time to evaluate where […]<\/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-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}