Emma Raducanu has appointed Sebastian Sachs as her new coach.
The 30-year-old German, who guided Belinda Bencic to Olympic gold final yr, has began working with the Briton, final yr’s US Open champion.
Sachs is in Abu Dhabi with Raducanu, who misplaced on Friday to Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur 5-7 6-3 (10-8) in an exhibition match on her harm return.
The German had a short profession as a participant on the Futures tour, however has loved loads of success as a coach.
Earlier than serving to Bencic into the world’s prime 10, he labored with Julia Gorges and earlier than that as a part of Victoria Azarenka’s staff.
Sachs will likely be Raducanu’s fifth coach in 18 months. This yr, the 20-year-old Briton has labored with first Torben Beltz after which Dmitry Tursunov.
Tursunov determined to not proceed the partnership after this yr’s US Open, regardless of Raducanu’s improved performances since Wimbledon.
The Russian spoke in late October of “crimson flags” and potential issues additional down the road if she continued to hearken to too many voices.
“She’s most likely a two-and-a-half-year venture. Her recreation may be very uncooked,” the 39-year-old Tursunov advised tennismajors.com.
“It’ll take a while, however as I stated to her and to just about everybody on her staff, ‘I feel you simply have to have one voice and simply attempt that for a bit’.
“I might have caught round, I might have agreed on every part that her staff proposed, however, deep down, I felt like that wasn’t the correct factor to do,”
Tursunov is now teaching Bencic.
Raducanu has solely been in a position to return to full coaching up to now 10 days after a wrist harm ended her season prematurely.
However in that point she has been working with Andy Murray’s former bodily coach Jez Inexperienced.
The British primary is about to start out her 2023 season in Auckland within the first week of the brand new yr.
