Emma Raducanu told by former coach what she must do to win another grand slam

Emma Raducanu can win more grand slam titles if she chases happiness rather than ranking points and stops worrying about her critics.

That is the view of her former coach Mark Petchey as the British number one prepares for her latest crack at Wimbledon.

A year ago, Petchey was in the middle of a successful short-term spell guiding the 23-year-old, but his broadcasting commitments meant it could not become permanent.

Raducanu is now back with Andrew Richardson, the coach who helped her to the US Open title in 2021 that launched her to superstardom but has made the intervening five years a wild and challenging ride.

“I love Emma to bits,” Petchey, who first coached Raducanu as a teenager, told the Press Association.

“I’ll take a bullet for her. I think her situation is so unique. I don’t envy her life, being judged every single week on a result that happened five years ago, that was an amazing story, was an absolute fairy tale.

“She’s a hell of a tennis player. But it’s challenging because, if you don’t win another one, it’s deemed a sub-optimal outcome.

“And I think, for her, it’s been a very hard process to grow up as an 18-year-old, in the glare of the spotlight, with everything that came – everyone would have done the same, but they say they wouldn’t have done the same. That’s the thing that I find really hard, the cognitive dissonance from people.

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“She can win another one for sure, I’ve always believed that about her. If she can find a way to just do the ordinary in an extraordinary way, every single day, and not look for a shortcut back to where she was in ’21, she’ll be fine.”

Petchey helped Raducanu out again this spring but is not prepared to give up