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Emma Raducanu searching for another coach after Nick Cavaday quits over health concerns

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Great Britain's Emma Raducanu with her coach Nick Cavaday during day one of the Australian Open 2025 at Melbourne Park

Emma Raducanu with Nick Cavaday, who has been suffering with a chronic health condition, at the Australian Open – Getty Images/James D. Morgan

Emma Raducanu has parted company with another coach after Nick Cavaday quit his role amid health concerns.

Cavaday has been suffering from a chronic health condition for some time. It meant he missed certain sections of his build-up for the grass court season last year, and was also unable to travel to Australasia as soon as planned this winter.

The news means that Raducanu He is looking for his seventh full-time coach in his three and a half years as a professional.

When he makes an appointment, the new coach will join a sequence of names that runs through Nigel Sears, Andrew Richardson, Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov, Sebastian Sachs and now finally Cavaday.

Raducanu will no doubt be disappointed, as she had grown comfortable with Cavaday’s low-key and highly technical training style. And she also liked the fact that she had known him since she was an unknown junior, as is the case with her other close childhood ally Jane O’Donoghue.

Cavaday had originally been the man in charge of the Bromley Tennis Academy when Raducanu played red, orange and green-ball tennis, and his vision for his game left him perfectly placed to oversee certain technical changes, including the strengthening of his vanilla. forehand.

It is true that Raducanu entered this year Australian Open with a failed serve after playing his movement more. But then, a lot of this probably stemmed from the butt spasm he suffered at the end of last season, which prevented him from adjusting his new action over the Christmas break.

“I am very happy to have been able to work with Emma over the past 14 months,” Cavaday, who had become the longest serving of Raducanu’s six coaches, said in a statement. “(But) it’s important for me to spend more time at home and prioritize getting back to full health, which is difficult to do with the extensive schedule. I’m glad Emma is back on tour now with a Top 60 ranking, and I look forward to seeing what she does from here.”

Raducanu also thanked Cavaday “for a great partnership over the last year and a little bit, especially (as) after the surgeries, helped me get back into the top 60 in the world. I wish him the best in his next chapter and we certainly” ‘I will stay in touch.’

Raducanu will play the WTA250 event in Singapore next week, having arrived there on Thursday after a week of training in Melbourne. She was eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open, Lose 6-1, 6-0 to world no 2 IGA Swiatek.

She is accompanied by her Newly appointed fitness coach, Yutaka Nakamura. His management suggested he wouldn’t rush a new coaching hire.

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