Mouratoglou's advice amid Raducanu coaching carousel: "Without stability, she's not going to be able to achieve her potential"
WTA
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.
Coach Changes:
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."
“I don’t know” – Mouratoglou on working with Raducanu in the 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."
Cristhián AvilaTennis Journalist
Cristhián Ávila is a tennis journalist based in Santiago, Chile, and has been part of the TennisUpToDate team since early 2023. He covers the ATP and WTA Tours as well as all four Grand Slams, producing breaking news, match reports, analysis, and regular liveblogs from major tournaments.
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