Emma Raducanu is preparing for Wimbledon by playing at Eastbourne and she has been urged to consider speaking to Andy Murray for some advice ahead of the tournament
Emma Raducanu could benefit from working with Andy Murray as a coach, according to former Wimbledon winner Conchita Martinez. Raducanu is preparing to compete in SW19 next week and has worked with a lot of different coaches during her short career.
Raducanu is currently working with Mark Petchey, who has been combining his role as a pundit in the tennis media with coaching. She is competing at Eastbourne, where she will face Ann Li on Tuesday, ahead of Wimbledon, which starts on June 30.
The world No.38 has gone through a lot of coaches over the years, working with Nigel Sears, Andrew Richardson, Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov, Sebastian Sachs and Vladimir Platenik. She has now settled on Petchey, who used to coach Murray, and her childhood coach Nick Cavaday.
But Martinez, who won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon in 1994 and now coaches Mirra Andreeva, thinks a link-up with Murray could work in the future. The Scot retired from playing last summer and spent six months Murray’s link-up as Novak Djokovic’s coach.
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“Emma is still young so there is still time,” Martinez told BoyleSports. “She’s doing great with Mark Petchey and Nick Cavaday, but we should ask Andy if he would like this experience.
“To be a coach and to be able to do the job right, it’s a huge commitment. When I took the job with Mirra, I knew that I needed to be close to her full-time. It would be dependent on Andy and what he’s up for doing. He could be a coach or maybe as support for a few weeks, who knows.”
Murray’s work with Djokovic came to an end in May and it doesn’t appear as though he’s looking to jump back into coaching. He has played doubles with Raducanu before and was scheduled to do so at Wimbledon last year, before she pulled out to focus on singles.
Judy Murray dropped a hint over her son’s future plans in an interview at the start of the month. She said: “I can see him doing a consultant type role with young players and he’s already done a lot of mentoring with the British players on the men’s side who are coming through, but I can’t see him being a full-time tennis coach.
“There’s more to life than jumping straight back into the tennis rat race after nearly 20 years as a player. I don’t think he’ll necessarily want to jump back onto that merry-go-round – not when you’re someone who’s got four kids to taxi around and you want to get your golf handicap to scratch.
“Whether he does it in the future, I don’t know – that’s for him to answer and I actually don’t think he knows the answer either but my guess is not right now.”