The former coach of Serena Williams, Patrick Mouratoglou, believes Emma Raducanu should find stability in her tennis career with a long-term coach rather than moving around for short periods.
The British player has switched six coaches in the last two years, including the one who helped her win her first Grand Slam title at the US Open in 2021. This high coach turnover rate has long been criticized by the tennis community.
Mourtaoglou expressed a similar view in an interview, saying that stability for a player on their team was crucial and that he did not think that could occur without a long-term coaching relationship. The French coach made it clear that if he were Raducanu’s father, he would counsel her against switching coaches.
He expressed his thoughts in a recent interview and said: “If Emma Raducanu were my daughter, I wouldn’t advise doing that because you need stability to build something, whatever it is. And even more, in tennis, I think it’s very important to have a project for your tennis and to follow, day after day, the road to achieving what your project, your tennis project, is.”
He added: “So whenever there are changes in terms of coaches, there are project changes. So you cannot build something. And also, you need stability. The tour is the most unstable thing on the planet. Everything changes every week. It’s pretty tough emotionally to handle all those changes.”
In fact, Mouratoglou feels that Raducanu’s inconsistent performance and her injury-plagued time on the tour are directly related to the instability that her team has experienced as a result of the frequent coach changes.
Mouratoglou concluded his discussion and said: “So if you have changes also with your team, then it’s too much. So I wish for her that she finds someone that she trusts enough to be able to keep the team for long enough to achieve something, because the potential we know she has, she’s proven it by winning a Grand Slam.”
Emma Raducanu in 2023
WWWLWWLLWW Currently ranked no.298, Emma played her last match on the 18th of April when she lost to world no.13 Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in Stuttgart (draw).
Currently, during this year the Brit achieved a 5-5 win-loss record.
Emma Raducanu |
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