Raducanu's father sounds fascinating

their approach to coaching has been quite unorthodox -

"Swapping coaches is often seen as a cop-out, a refusal to take responsibility for your own failings. In many cases, when a player sacks a coach they are off-loading the blame.

But Raducanu has worked with heaps of people all along, and the intention has been a kind of crowd-sourcing. She has taken ideas from each one, without becoming lost in a fog of competing advice.

“Most people who are getting established in the game look at an experienced coach and assume that they must be an expert,” said one British tennis insider. “With the Raducanus, it’s the other way around. You have to actually impress them, even if you have a big reputation, because they start from the principle that most people don’t actually know what they’re talking about.

“Then they size you up, work out what you’re good at, suck out all the information they can get from you, and move on. It’s a brilliant method, although it’s quite bruising to the egos of people who think they have an all-round mastery of tennis coaching. Because these people are often being asked for some specific information, like, ‘How I can get more width on my backhand return?’ or whatever it is. And then it’s, ‘Okay, I’ve got it, thank you very much. Bye’.”

Posted By: paulg on September 10th 2021 at 13:20:46

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