Mouratoglou's advice amid Raducanu coaching carousel: "Without stability, she's not going to be able to achieve her potential"

Former coach of Serena Williams and Simona Halep, Patrick Mouratoglou, recommended Emma Raducanu to find stability in her project and criticized the constant changes of coaches since winning the US Open. The 21-year-old Briton played in only five tournaments in 2022 and has not shown the same level that led her to the title in Flushing Meadows in 2021.

Without playing in the last nine months, Raducanu will return to the Tour after undergoing operations on both her wrists and is currently ranked world No. 296. She confirmed her comeback at the Auckland Open starting on January 1, and it will be her only preparation tournament for the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open.

Raducanu has undergone 5 coaching changes in the last two years, which Mouratoglou believes is related to the difficulty of rediscovering good gameplay. The French coach, however, is confident that the young star will regain her form once she has more stability, as he declared to Sky Sports:

"I know that Raducanu is coming back, which is great news for British tennis," Mouratoglou said. "She has suffered a lot both in her tennis, in her results, and after that with injuries, but I hope she can find some stability around her because without stability, she's not going to be able to achieve her potential, and that would be sad."

"Let's hope that she can stay injury-free at the start of the season and that she can find someone who can help her fall in love with the game and tennis again for her future."

Mouratoglou has experience when it comes to top players. The Frenchman worked with Serena Williams for 10 of her Grand Slam titles. He also worked directly with top ATP Tour players like Grigor Dimitrov, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Holger Rune during the last year.

"I don't know," he said. "I haven't thought about it but all I can say is is she ready to trust someone?

"Can she trust a project and to follow that project for long enough to be able to make real progress that she needs to do in order to achieve her potential?

"What hurt her so much is all those changes because you cannot change your tennis project every three months, it doesn't make sense."

Mouratoglou began working with Simona Halep in 2022, a collaboration that halted since the Romanian suffered her four-year doping ban, although they have not announced a definitive separation. The coach emphasized the importance of players trusting their coaching team:

"I understand it's not easy to trust someone but that's also what makes the careers of players. They have the ability to stick to people that they believe in, to a project they believe in and not change whenever there is anything wrong because it's a marathon," he said.

"You have to accept that during a marathon you have ups and downs and every time you have a little down you get rid of the people, you can't reach the finish line in one day."