After winning the title last year, Emma Raducanu lost already in the first round of the 2022 US Open.
Despite the early loss, former world number 10 stayed in the Flushing Meadows to practice with her new coach, Dmitriy Tursunov. It seems that Emma Raducanu wants to be ready for the rest of the 2022 and also the start of the 2023 season, which she will hope will be better than this one. Tennis analysts, Mats Wilander and Kim Clijsters praised efforts of the Brit. Speaking to Eurosport, they said:
“I can believe [she’s still practising] because she just started working with Dmitry Tursunov, who I think is a great coach, who helped Aryna Sabalenka a lot, even though they’re not together anymore. So, yeah I like it. We have to remember Raducanu is in her second year of being on tour."
"Even though she won the US Open, she hasn’t really been on tour so I think it’s great. Maybe she doesn’t want to go back to Britain because it might be raining over there and here we have beautiful, beautiful weather,” Wilander joked.
“It does take time [to develop the player-coach relationship],” Clijsters said. “A lot of times coaches start a little trial period and if you don’t get enough matches to be together then you’ll want to put in some extra work."
“And who knows? He might have some travelling restrictions being a Russian, so it’s a little harder to get visas. So it might be one of the reasons they are sticking around here to work together and get to know each other a little bit more.”
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