"She has more coaches the past 4 years than titles": Serena Williams' ex-coach criticises Emma Raducanu after disappointing Singapore Open outing

Ex-coach of the former world number one Serena Williams, Rick Macci, has criticised Britain’s Emma Raducanu for changing too many coaches. The 22-year-old was once regarded as the next big thing, especially when she lifted the US Open at the age of 18.

The most impressive aspect of Raducanu’s success in that particular competition was the fact that she started the competition from the qualifying round and still managed to go all the way and secure the ultimate prize after beating Canda’s Leylah Fernandez in the final in straight sets with a score of 6-4, 6-3.

Since then, however, not much has gone right for Raducanu, largely because of fitness concerns. The 2025 season started poorly for the former world number 10 as well. She was knocked out of the first Grand Slam of the year — the Australian Open — after losing in the third round to world number two Iga Swiatek in straight sets with a score of 6-1, 6-0. After that, she participated in the Singapore Open, where she was knocked out after losing in the first round to Cristina Bucșa with a score of 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.

Ex-coach of the former world number one Serena, Macci, has recently posted a comment on the social media platform X — previously known as Twitter—where he criticised Raducanu for recent poor performances. He stated that the former world number 10 changed too many coaches.

“Emma is one hundred percent a top ten player,” he wrote. “Emma is a great ball striker. Mentally Emma has been there done that. Emma can beat anybody anytime anywhere including herself if she does not have the right proven voice and inner secret sauce. @EmmaRaducanu. She is to talented and proven not to be one of best in the world. Unless you know what is inside the players head and if there is a burning desire it is hard to speculate. She has more coaches the past 4 years than titles so maybe she should hire Emma to coach Emma.”