Emma Raducanu believes her coaching agreement with Mark Petchey and Jane O\u2019Donoghue is \u201cworking pretty well\u201d, but former world No 21 Dan Evans has raised concerns about the long-term future.<\/p>\n
2021 US Open winner Raducanu<\/a> started working with Petchey during the Miami Open and they enjoyed instant success as she reached the quarter-final of the WTA 1000 event, resulting in a return to the top 50 of the WTA Rankings.<\/p>\n Both parties have made it clear that for now it is an ad-hoc partnership as Petchey also works as a tennis commentator, meaning he won\u2019t be able to mentor Raducanu at all tournaments.<\/p>\n But that is where Jane O\u2019Donoghue, a former Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) national women\u2019s coach, comes into the picture as she is expected to step in when Petchey is unavailable.<\/p>\n Although the agreement is off to a solid start, former British No 1 Evans feels things will get complicated when Raducanu starts to lose matches.<\/p>\n \u201cIt can\u2019t last if she starts losing matches and Petchey is in the commentary box. That\u2019s not going to work,\u201d he told BBC 5 Live Tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Emma will be looking for a new coach again pretty soon if she starts to lose some matches on the grass into the US swing. I\u2019m not sure how that can last as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s first-round opponent in Rome is revealed and she will take on a rising star<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu can draw inspiration from Jack Draper as she faces similar obstacles<\/a><\/p>\n Both Petchey and O\u2019Donoghue \u2013 who is currently on a sabbatical from her full-time job \u2013 are with Raducanu in Rome this week for the Italian Open, but the latter\u2019s agreement is also short-term as she won\u2019t be available next year when she returns to her job in finance.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been working pretty well,\u201d the world No 49 told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n \u201cMark is doing his commentary work and around that he is going to help me as much as he can and hopefully the times align that he can be there with me in the matches.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why Jane is here for when he\u2019s not able to make it to the session.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile she\u2019s not working it\u2019s nice to have her as much as possible, but she will go back to work and then I need to figure another solution out.\u201d<\/p>\n The big question is who will support Petchey when O\u2019Donoghue is no longer available.<\/p>\n Raducanu added: \u201cI just need to work on who that person is.\u201d<\/p>\n With both Petchey and O\u2019Donoghue by Raducanu\u2019s side for now, they have been tasked to help her to take her game to the next level.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel slightly better than I did in Madrid,\u201d the British No 2 said.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to use this period of the clay season to try and work on certain things in my game that I think are going to help me bridge the gap to the next level.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to take more balls on, I want to be more aggressive in certain points \u2013 I want to structure the points more on my terms.<\/p>\n \u201cI know I may make more errors doing that, but I\u2019m willing to go through that.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu\u2019s agreement with Mark Petchey not a long-term solution, warns former British No 1<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu believes her coaching agreement with Mark Petchey and Jane O\u2019Donoghue is \u201cworking pretty well\u201d, but former world No 21 Dan Evans has raised concerns about the long-term future. 2021 US Open winner Raducanu started working with Petchey during the Miami Open and they enjoyed instant success as she reached the quarter-final of the […]<\/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-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h3>\n