By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Emma Raducanu will probably trip the teaching carousel all through her professional profession, says her agent.
The 2021 US Open champion has a behavior of parting from coaches after a number of months of working collectively.
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Whereas some champions, together with John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, have stated a constant teaching presence may assist the Briton, Raducanu’s agent predicts she is going to proceed to cycle by coaches all through her profession.
IMG Agent Max Eisenbud instructed The Tennis Podcast Raducanu is snug with teaching change.
“It is most likely going to be like that for the remainder of her profession. That is what’s snug for them,” Eisenbud instructed The Tennis Podcast. “I am not saying it’s proper or mistaken, however that’s the approach they’ve completed it, and I feel it’s high quality to do issues in another way.”
Raducanu has labored with 5 totally different coaches over the course of the previous two years. She has posted a 24-27 report since her impressed run to the US Open championship.
The British baseliner break up from Andrew Richardson, who coached her to the 2021 US Open crown, weeks after she made historical past as the primary qualifer, male or feminine, to seize a Grand Slam singles championship. Raducanu has additionally spent months with coaches together with Nigel Sears, Torben Beltz and Dmitry Tursunov earlier than transferring on. Tursunov was Raducanu’s fourth coach in a 16-month span. Raducanu spent a brief stint with coach Sebastian Sachs earlier than parting firm final month.
Final fall, Raducanu employed Jez Inexperienced, Andy Murray’s former physio, to her crew as health coach.
Eisenbud, who has represented Maria Sharapova and Li Na, stated Raducanu and her father, Ian, view coaches like professors at a college. As the scholar, Raducanu absorbs essentially the most she will be able to out of every coach, earlier than transferring on to a brand new coach.
“Her dad and Emma management all of the teaching stuff,” Eisenbud stated. “All the way in which up by the juniors, they by no means had coaches a very long time, so, for them, that is calm waters—having a coach for 4 to 5 months after which occurring to another person. “Emma and her dad have their very own philosophy.
“Richard Williams (father of Venus and Serena) had his personal philosophy, which was totally different, and Yuri Sharapova (father of Maria) had his.”
The long-time IMG agent additionally advised you may depend nice professional coaches on two arms.
“We’re not sitting in a sport that has a plethora of nice coaches—perhaps eight, 9 or 10 nice coaches,” Eisenbud stated. “A lot of the nice, nice coaches do not wish to journey for 35 or 40 weeks a yr and depart their households, so you could have a small pool which can be keen to journey and cost little or no cash, so that they preserve getting recycled and recycled. That’s the reason you see coaches hopping round.”
The 20-year-old Raducanu, who underwent surgical procedure on her ankle and each wrists final Might, is at the moment rehabbing and hopes to return earlier than the tip of the 2023 season.
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