Emma Raducanu suffered a heavy defeat to Elena Rybakina at the 2025 US Open, and legendary coach Rick Macci has weighed in on the Brit\u2019s quest to close the gap to world\u2019s best players.<\/p>\n
The world No 36 was dismantled 6-1, 6-2 by 10th-ranked Rybakina<\/a>, a Wimbledon champion in 2022, in the third round of the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n Raducanu<\/a> shocked the tennis world at the 2021 US Open when \u2014 as an 18-year-old qualifier ranked 150th in the world \u2014 she stormed through the draw without losing a set to win what remains her only career title. She is the only qualifier in tennis history to win a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n Since that staggering breakthrough four years ago, Raducanu has endured some challenging times on tour, with injuries hampering her progress. She underwent surgeries on both her wrists and her ankle in 2023.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old has enjoyed the most consistent period of her career since the Miami Open in March, where she started working with Mark Petchey, who she has since replaced with Rafael Nadal\u2019s former coach Francisco Roig.<\/p>\n Raducanu, who reached a career-high ranking of 10th in 2022, has been backed to return to the top 10 by Macci, who spoke exclusively to Tennis365.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOne thousand percent, she is a top ten talent. And let\u2019s face it, there\u2019s a fine line between winning and losing. There\u2019s a fine line with that confidence,\u201d said the American, who coached Serena and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu suffers brutal US Open loss to Elena Rybakina as Tim Henman and Laura Robson react<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s ex-coach reveals star\u2019s \u2018difficult\u2019 spell in revealing comments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAnd as she gets more confident and she starts beating the top players, not only can she be in the top 10, she can definitely contend for a Grand Slam, because she has enough game, because she\u2019s done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n Tennis365 asked Macci<\/a> to identify the biggest hurdle Raducanu must overcome to return to the top 10 and challenge for Grand Slams again.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s two things, I just think that she needs to keep competing and play on her instincts and not overthink it. That\u2019s number one,\u201d Macci assessed.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think the wildcard with her is to stay injury-free. You gotta understand, she kind of had the daily double on the comeback, you know, she had surgery and then you don\u2019t play for a while. So, you\u2019re not playing, and an injury \u2014 that takes a long time.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, if she can stay injury-free and just get a lot of matches, get some good wins. And let\u2019s face it, anybody who plays her, they know that she\u2019s capable of beating them now. Maybe they didn\u2019t look at it a year ago, but now that she\u2019s dropped a few players, played a lot of players close\u2026 and she has weapons.<\/p>\n \u201cListen, if you can hurt people and you have weapons, you can beat anybody, anytime, anywhere. She\u2019s definitely top 10 and it could happen a lot sooner than later.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Iga Swiatek gets glowing Serena Williams comparison from American legend\u2019s former coach<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu\u2019s \u2018two biggest hurdles\u2019 revealed as she suffers US Open hammering<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu suffered a heavy defeat to Elena Rybakina at the 2025 US Open, and legendary coach Rick Macci has weighed in on the Brit\u2019s quest to close the gap to world\u2019s best players. The world No 36 was dismantled 6-1, 6-2 by 10th-ranked Rybakina, a Wimbledon champion in 2022, in the third round of […]<\/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-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h2>\n
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