"She has not found that person yet": Emma Raducanu's no-coach situation compared to Roger Federer with time being no object for right fit
WTATuesday, 17 February 2026 at 15:15
Emma Raducanu could benefit from continuing not to have a coach in the view of Greg Rusedski who believes the Brit would benefit from not having a coach for the short term like Roger Federer initially.
Raducanu hired Francisco Roig in August 2025 after a successful stint with Mark Petchey couldn't be continued due to the fact that Petchey has his other commitments. She has won the US Open in 2021 as a teenager but since then, she has been affected by bouts of poor form as well as struggles with various injury problems.
This included wrist surgery and she had a superb time in Cluj where she reached the final losing out emphatically but unwell against Sorana Cirstea. She decided to stop working with Roig after the disappointment of losing early against Anastasia Potapova at the Australian Open.
Albeit she was knocked out in the first round in Dubai against Antonia Ruzic as her good week turned to disappointment following that. "I remember Roger Federer going through a period by himself without a coach, and it was possibly the best thing for him," Rusedski said on Off Court.
"He figured out certain things for himself and took ownership of it."
Similar to Federer could help her
The period that Rusedski referred to was when the Swiss star stopped working with his coach Peter Lundgren in 2003 and then spent 2004 without a coach. During that period, he won the US Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open and while Raducanu isn't in the same ballpark, she could benefit from something similar to help figure out what she requires. Rusedski said that instead of rushing into it, she could do with some time to think amid the real rush of the tennis tour.
"We saw her [Raducanu] in Romania get to the finals. Yes, she did not perform as well as she would like in the finals," he added.
"So she has got to figure out herself and figure out the relationship where she sees eye-to-eye with the coach with how she wants to play out there."
"That is where she has got to have the right mindset with the coach in terms of how she has to play, what her techniques need to be on the court and have that clarity.
"So, a little bit of time away without a coach right now, someone who is just hitting her, might be a real positive until she finds someone who she is on the same page with week in and week out, because she has not found that person yet. Hopefully she does."
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