Emma Raducanu’s US Open coach, Andrew Richardson, had the intention to enter into a long-term contract but things fell through after he “received a quick contact” from the British player’s agent. Raducanu trial-hired Richardson after the 2021 Wimbledon.
Two months later, Raducanu, who was 18 at the time, made tennis history by becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam at the US Open. Several people were completely startled when Raducanu stated she was leaving the coach who had helped her win a Grand Slam . Raducanu has had four different coaches since the 2021 US Open, and the 20-year-old has drawn a lot of criticism for her frequent coaching changes.
During an interview with The Daily Mail Richardson commented:
“The fact of the matter is that I had a nine-week trial contract that both Emma and I thought was a good idea to see how we would get on, and it ran through to the end of the US Open, stopping immediately afterwards.
There was a period of time after that when I was keen to re-negotiate the contract. I wanted to carry on, and I had a plan that I wanted to put in place for Emma. This thing about ‘I wanted to go off and coach my son’ is not true, but it seems to come up all the time. After probably 10 days to two weeks [following the US Open], I didn’t have a contract. We were in the process of re-negotiating, and then I got a brief call from her agent telling me they were going to go in a different direction, and that was the end of it.”
Emma Raducanu in 2023
LWWLLWWLWW Now ranked no.103, Raducanu played her last match on the 18th of April when she lost to world no.20 Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in Stuttgart (draw).
Currently, during this year Emma has a compiled 5-5 match record.
She is also scheduled to play at the Wimbledon (Wimbledon) on the 3rd of July and U.S. Open (U.S. Open) on the 28th of August.
