"If I had that many coaches in a year, I'd be struggling too" - Navratilova believes Raducanu should stick with one coach

Emma Raducanu should "stick with it" when it comes to her latest coaching situation at the US Open, according to tennis legend Martina Navratilova.

The 19-year-old beat Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 in last year’s final to seal an incredible triumph, coming through 10 matches as a qualifier without dropping a set. Since that remarkable Grand Slam success at Flushing Meadows, she has experienced a dip in form and struggled to progress further than the second round in each of the three Grand Slams played this year.

Raducanu most recently fell short at the Cincinnati Open in the last 16 to Jessica Pegula, following her first-round win over Serena Williams, after exiting earlier at the Canadian Open and Citi Open. She has also parted with a number of coaches, something Navratilova has urged her to ease up on with Dmitry Tursunov the latest to work with her. 

Navratilova, who has 18 Grand Slams to her name, would love to see Raducanu remain with the same coach for long enough to find stability in her career and prevent "too many points of view" with "too much information" from holding her back.

"This is a good coaching situation for her," Navratilova told the WTA Tour of her partnership with Tursunov. "I hope she sticks with it. If I had that many coaches in a year, I would be struggling, too. Too many points of view, too many philosophies - too much information.

"When you get information from one coach you can kind of sift through that, figure it out. But when you’re getting it from so many different people, how are you supposed to process all that?"

Raducanu was eliminated from the 2022 US Open in the first round by Alize Cornet on Tuesday night, ending her unbeaten streak at Flushing Meadows.