Emma Raducanu rehires coach who helped her to 2021 US Open triumph
Andrew Richardson helped her win slam as an 18-year-old Partnership to start at Strasbourg in French Open buildup Emma Raducanu has rehired Andrew Richardson, the coach who helped
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Andrew Richardson helped her win slam as an 18-year-old Partnership to start at Strasbourg in French Open buildup Emma Raducanu has rehired Andrew Richardson, the coach who helped guide her to her sensational US Open triumph in 2021, on a formal basis as she prepares to return to competition next week in Strasbourg in the buildup to the French Open. Richardson will accompany Raducanu at the WTA 50
Key points
- During the early days of her return to the courts, Raducanu travelled to Richardson’s base at the Ferrer Academy in La Nucía, Spain, near Benidorm, for a clay-court training block that doubled as a…
- In a statement, Raducanu said: “Grateful to have reconnected with someone who has known me for over a decade now and looking forward to building together one iteration at a time.” They have a long…
- Raducanu was working with Nigel Sears at the beginning of her breakthrough summer in 2021, before joining forces with Richardson in the July.
- Their partnership yielded one of the biggest surprises in tennis history as the teenager won the US Open that year as a qualifier without dropping a set.
- Less than two weeks later, she controversially chose not to extend her coaching partnership with Richardson, which had begun on a short-term interim basis.
This article was independently rewritten by ManyPress editorial AI from reporting originally published by Guardian Sport.