Raducanu Happy With 'informal' Coaching Set-up

Emma Raducanu has paused nan hunt for a caller full-time coach, saying she is happy to "keep things informal" arsenic her part-time business pinch Mark Petchey continues.

Raducanu brought Petchey - a well-known fig successful British tennis circles and a erstwhile coach of Andy Murray - into her coaching squad connected a casual ground astatine past month's Miami Open.

Petchey was successful nan coaching container arsenic nan 22-year-old Briton reached nan quarter-finals and produced her champion tennis of nan season.

After Miami, Raducanu wanted Petchey to lead nan team connected a much regular basis, but committing clip astir his tv broadcasting activity has been a stumbling block.

Raducanu, who is returning to competitory action this week astatine nan Madrid Open aft a period off, said Petchey will beryllium "fitting" her astir his different commitments astatine nan WTA 1000 clay-court event.

"I'm happy pinch nan set-up going guardant correct now - it's been moving well," said nan world number 49.

"I for illustration him a batch and I've known him since earlier nan US Open [victory successful 2021] and it's bully to person acquainted faces around."

Raducanu has not had a full-time coach since January, erstwhile Nick Cavaday stood down for wellness reasons, and ended a two-week proceedings pinch Vladimir Platenik connected nan eve of nan Miami Open.

She had antecedently worked pinch a wide scope of coaches including Nigel Sears, Andrew Richardson - who was successful complaint during her tally to nan US Open title - Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov and Sebastian Sachs.

On Petchey, Raducanu added: "We're keeping things informal for now and it's been working. He's personification I've known for a agelong clip and I do consciousness for illustration I tin spot him.

"For now location is nary existent point group successful chromatic but we're taking it week to week and he's helping maine arsenic overmuch arsenic he tin alongside his existent commitments."

Post-Miami, Raducanu decided it would beryllium much beneficial to skip Great Britain's Billie Jean King Cup tie and do a short training artifact successful nan United States instead.

The 2021 US Open champion spent nan clip successful Los Angeles, wherever she worked pinch Petchey for 10 days earlier heading backmost to Europe.

Raducanu, who has known Petchey since she was a teenager, says she is enjoying nan "thought-provoking" quality of their conversations.

Creating a relaxed ambiance astir her - which she said helped her "express" herself successful Miami and beryllium much "authentic" - is different hallmark of nan partnership.

Raducanu has besides recovered greater equilibrium disconnected nan court. In LA, she enjoyed hiking trips successful nan mountains, while going to a post-training yoga people successful Madrid is different illustration of her trying to onslaught a work-life balance.

"I'm happy pinch [the training block] and really I'm emotion connected nan tribunal correct now. I deliberation I did immoderate awesome activity connected my crippled and I'm looking guardant to testing it connected a lucifer court," said British number 2 Raducanu.

"We created our ain small bubble and it was bully to beryllium moving connected my crippled retired location but astatine nan aforesaid clip having nosy and enjoying it.

"He's helped maine successful a batch of areas of my crippled and besides disconnected nan tribunal uncovering things to stimulate maine mentally and perpetually challenging maine - which I like."

Raducanu will return to nan WTA Tour erstwhile she faces Suzan Lamens of nan Netherlands successful nan Madrid first information later this week.

It will beryllium her first lucifer since losing to American world number 3 Jessica Pegula successful nan Miami quarter-finals connected 27 March.

"I had a agelong commencement to nan twelvemonth pinch galore weeks successful a statement and I deliberation my assemblage and encephalon needed to person a small recharge," Raducanu said.

"With nan modulation to a different aboveground connected clay, I consciousness I'm not astatine nan constituent that I tin move surfaces successful back-to-back weeks."