Settled coaching staff can help Emma Raducanu get back to the top
About half an hour earlier, Raducanu had walked off Centre Court to a standing ovation after pushing the top seed Aryna Sabalenka hard in a dramatic third-round clash. The 22-year-old was disappointed that her considerable effort yielded no better than a straight-sets defeat, and the emotion understandably soon came flooding out when she returned to the locker room.
Also fuelling the dejection was the realisation that time may now have to be called on a coaching partnership she has thoroughly enjoyed in the past three months. Mark Petchey has become a trusted mentor ever since he stepped in to help her on an informal basis at the Miami Open, but the upcoming US hard-court swing will make it difficult for him to continue juggling the coaching of Raducanu with his broadcast commitments. As a commentator and pundit on American television for the Tennis Channel, he is about to enter his busiest period of the year.
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