Insiders suggest British No 1 is focusing on grass tournaments as absence from tennis throws immediate schedule into doubt
As Jamie Murray’s retirement draws a line under the greatest era of British professional tennis, eyes will naturally turn to the next generation of talent – and, more specifically, Emma Raducanu…
There is a moment from the 2026 Australian Open that tells you almost everything you need to know about where Emma Raducanu is right now as a tennis player, and more importantly, as someone who consistently gets in her own way. During her United Cup match against Maria Sakkari, Francisco Roig had been instructing her to add variety and to think tactically
Four and a half years have passed since Raducanu produced one of the most extraordinary individual achievements in the history of tennis, winning the US Open as a qualifier without dropping a set. She was 18 years old, ranked outside the top 150, and she played the tournament of her life. Since then, she has cycled through coach after coach, accumulated a record that falls well short of her ability, and offered explanations for each departure that consistently locate the problem everywhere except where it actually lives.
She is now searching for her tenth coach in five years, with the longest single coaching relationship of her professional career lasting just 13 months. The question is no longer whether there is a pattern. There clearly is. The question is whether she will ever acknowledge it honestly enough to change it.