In an interview this week, the 22-year-old said how she had been “burnt quite a lot of times” in the aftermath of her 2021 US Open victory, and it has left her with a mistrust of new people and a reluctance to offer too much of herself to them.
“I haven’t really opened up to many people in my life, truly, but the ones that I really trust, I do,” Raducanu told the Guardian.
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“A few people who I’ve really trusted have surprised me, but I guess that’s life, and I still have some great people around me who I really trust, and I’m working on it.”
Since then Raducanu has had a two-week trial with Vladimir Platenik, a temporary reunion with Roman Kelecic (another past coach) and most recently a period working with Tennis Channel commentator Mark Petchey.
Petchey has been quite the opposite. The work which the former British No 1 did on Raducanu’s forehand in 2020 is seen in some tennis circles as having been crucial to her breakout year 12 months later – but Petchey has never overtly pushed himself forward as such a crucial cog.
Petchey (right) and O’Donoghue have become Raducanu’s regular coaching double act (Photo: Getty)The comfort of familiarity in tennis is something we have seen before. Andy Murray had a number of different coaches, but the same faces kept popping up: Ivan Lendl’s avuncular role was reprised three times in the Murray camp, although he rarely said much and was a totem for the Scot’s success as much as anything else; Leon Smith officially coached Murray from the age of 11 to 17 but was regularly seen in his box throughout his senior career; Jamie Delgado was a Davis Cup team-mate and close friend first but then became one of Murray’s coaches in 2016.
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Jack Draper, Murray’s protege, reached the Madrid final on Sunday with his mother, brother and agent Ben, and coach of nearly a decade James Trotman.
And the truth is it has worked for all three of those men, and can for Raducanu too. Her greatest moment came with childhood coach Andrew Richardson, now seemingly out of favour, in the box and as someone whose game is often influenced by her mood, it’s right to regard a settled emotional environment off court in the same way as a strong tactical gameplan: essential.
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“It can’t last if she starts losing matches and Petchey is in the commentary box. That’s not going to work,” former British No 1 Dan Evans told the BBC.
But Raducanu is not in a hurry to find a new old face.
“He [Petchey] is going to help me as much as he can and hopefully the times align that he can be there with me in the matches,” Raducanu said.
“While she’s not working it’s nice to have her as much as possible, but she will go back to work and then I need to figure another solution out.
If we have learned anything about Emma Raducanu, it is that the next person is unlikely to be a total stranger.
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