Richard Pagliaro | @tennis_now | Friday, May 9, 2025
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Emma Raducanu Press the button while watching tennis on TV.
Today, Raducanu is the audience for commentator coaches Mark Page.
World No. 49 Raducanu sweeps the lucky loser in Switzerland Jil Teichmann 6-2, 6-2 Entered the third round of Rome today.
The next raducanu is Veronika Kudermetova The winner of this match could face WTA final champion Coco Gauff in 16 rounds.
Tennis Channel commentator and former ATP Pro Petchey are not listed as official coach for Raducanu, but he has been in her box since Miami and has trained with her before this clay sport begins.
Working with Petchey and Jane O’Donoghue, a revived Raducanu won a 7-2 record in her final three games, returning to the top 50 for the first time in three years.
Importantly, Raducan was more relaxed, and she looked like she was having fun again and was competing clearly.
Ladanu beat three talented Americans for the first time in a row at the Miami Open in March –Emma Navarro, McCartney Kessler and Amanda Anisimova– Then we pushed our Open Finalist Jessica Pegula into three sets before bowing to the Miami quarterfinals.
Raducanu admits that she sometimes presses the mute button on a tennis TV analyst, and he says she has listened and listens from Andy Murray’s former coach Petchey.
Rakanu tells Prakash Amritraj of Tennis Channel. “I think he’s the one I really want to hear. Sometimes when I watch tennis, I have to mute it, and with him, I love hearing what he wants to say.”
Raducanu became the first player (male or female) to win a Grand Slam singles title at the 2021 U.S. Open, where he won a training block in Petchey in Los Angeles and praised her training block with her recent success rate.
“He’s funny,” Rakanu said. “Obviously, he helped me a lot in tennis. We did a great job in Los Angeles while he was on the Tennis Channel and I was very happy with everything.”
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Red clay has been Raducanu’s least favorite surface, so supporters say wait until she goes up the grass and watch Petchey coaching on point construction and applying her full-field skills to work on the lawn.
Although Raducanu is investigating the news now, what happens to Messenger if /when Raducanu encounters rough spots on the path back to the top 25?
Daniel Evans Say you don’t even need a 20/20 visual or a top 20 ranking to see how this all ends.
Former World 21 Evans said the split in the Raducanu-Petchey partnership is not only inevitable.
In fact, Evans bluntly said that if Lacanu’s result went south, it would “not last.”
“If she starts losing the game and Petchey is in the comment box, that won’t last, and that won’t work,” Evans told Evans. BR5 Live In comments posted by British media. “I think if Emma starts losing some games on the grass, i.e.
“I’m not sure how to keep going.”
The fact that Evans’ comment implies is that the 22-year-old Raducanu’s axe coach almost as Agatha Christie killed the character, any WTA Tour coach could grow rapidly, and that Petchey, even without commenting directly on Raducanu’s game, could make her coach’s strength and underdogs stand out.
In tennis, will coach selectors and star player partnership pairing produce a clearer field of vision or mixed signals?
The Raducanu-Petchey partnership is not the first time that an elite player has become an analyst with a former player. It’s not the first time that the broadcaster has conducted a television analysis of the players they spend their time coaching.
Hall of Fame member Boris Becker made a TV commentary on his previous allegations of Novak Djokovic. Becker is the mentor to the world’s No. 2 Alexander Zverev and commented on the former Olympic gold medalist competition.
Olympic gold medal champion and TC top analyst Lindsay Davenport has been the lead analyst for several Madison Key games. Davenport has coached Keys before, who has trained for years at the Chris Evert Academy in Florida. Key’s mentor Chrissie Evert has long predicted that she will eventually break through and win the Grand Slam title in the comments of the Keys game.
Patrick Mouratoglou was an ESPN expert analyst while coaching Serena Williams. Williams lost to Naomi Osaka in the 2018 U.S. Open final, which was in anger from the previous number one in the breach of President Carlos Ramos, whose coach sent a hand signal across the court.
In fact, in the ESPN finals report, Mouratoglou had the mentorship trying to direct Serena in a live interview with colleague Pam Shriver, noting that Uncle Toni Nadal sent a signal in almost every game. Hall of Fame Shriver coaches Wimbledon semifinalist Donna Vekic, but in the SW19 final last year, he was in a box in Croatia, not at the ESPN booth.
ESPN analyst and former Olympic gold medalist Mary Joe Fernandez commented on many of the players she coached when she was captain of the Fed Cup. The same goes for ESPN analyst and former US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe, who coached Andy Roddick in the U.S. Open.
The relationship between the coach/commentator and the star player can be traced back to tennis in the 1970s.
Hall of Fame member and chief CBS analyst Tony Trabert coached several American stars, including John McEnroe and Arthur Ashe as captains the Davis Cup and competes with Pat Summerall. Hall of Fame and former player Donald Dell represented some of the stars he has commented on, including Jimmy Connors as manager.
So how does Raducanu-Petchey’s plotline develop green ranches (and bigger reviews) play on British lawns next month?
Like all the fascinating dramas, we all have to adjust.
