There is no doubt that the Emma Raducanu-Mark Petchey partnership has the potential to be successful, but one Sky Sports commentator says there is a key area that could be a \u201cproblem\u201d in the long run.<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s connection goes back to her junior days as they worked together during the summer of 2020 \u2013 the year before Raducanu<\/a> made her breakthrough at Wimbledon with a run to the fourth round before going on to win the US Open.<\/p>\n Having hired and fired several coaches since her 2021 US Open fairytale run, Raducanu linked up with Petchey at the Miami Open in March and they had instant success.<\/p>\n Following a difficult couple of months, the 22-year-old reached her maiden WTA 1000 quarter-final as she defeated eighth seed Emma Navarro and 17th seed Amanda Anisimova before losing against fourth seed Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n That run helped her to surge back into the top 50 of the WTA Rankings and there is talk that Raducanu and Petchey could make their coaching partnership permanent.<\/p>\n Sky Sports\u2019 Jonathan Overend feels Petchey is the right man for the job.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Petchey appeared courtside in Miami, the results were instant, it was the best tournament of her year so far,\u201d he told Sky Sports Tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cRaducanu has talked about the desire to ask lots of questions to whoever her coach may be, and Petchey absolutely has answers whenever he is asked questions, so I can imagine the conversations between the two being very in-depth.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s encouraging for the future because I still believe Raducanu has a big, big result in her and it may come sooner than we all think.\u201d<\/p>\n Raducanu has admitted recently that \u201cit\u2019s working really well, and it\u2019s nice to be with someone that I feel comfortable with\u201d, but for now the relationship is still \u201cinformal\u201d.<\/p>\n Petchey is once again in her camp at the Madrid Open, but if they do decide to make it \u201cformal\u201d then there is one obstacle they need to clear.<\/p>\n Who is Emma Raducanu\u2019s coaching team for the Madrid Open?<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu closing in on prize money breakthrough as she makes telling confession<\/a><\/p>\n Petchey is currently working with the Tennis Channel in the United States and that could have an impact on his ability to travel with Raducanu to several tournaments.<\/p>\n Overend added: \u201cThe problem is going to be time and commitment because Petchey has a job with the Tennis Channel in the States, which takes up a lot of his time.<\/p>\n \u201cThe chopping and changing of coaching by Raducanu just illustrates a business mindset whereby if something isn\u2019t working, she is going to change it.<\/p>\n \u201cShe is absolutely within her right to make sure she is as comfortable as possible with the people around her. Tennis is a very isolated sport, you\u2019re on the road with your coach and often it\u2019s just the two of you so that one-to-one relationship is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu\u2019s link-up with new coach could face one major obstacle<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no doubt that the Emma Raducanu-Mark Petchey partnership has the potential to be successful, but one Sky Sports commentator says there is a key area that could be a \u201cproblem\u201d in the long run. The pair\u2019s connection goes back to her junior days as they worked together during the summer of 2020 \u2013 […]<\/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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h3>\n