By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Friday, May 9, 2025
Photo Credit: International BNL D’Italia
Ema Raducanu Pushes buttons when watching tennis on TV.
These days, Raducanu is an reception audience for commentator-trainer Mark Petchey.
World no. 49 Raducanu included the lucky Swiss loser Jil Teichmann 6-2, 6-2 today to reach the third round of Rome.
Next for Raducanu is Veronika KudderMova With the winner of that match potentially faces the WTA Coco Gauff final champion in the 16th round.
Tennis channel commentator and former -Atp Pro Petchey have not been ranked as Raducanu’s official coach, but he has been in her box as an informal coach since Miami and made a training block before this clay campaign began.
Working with Petchey and Jane O’Donoghue, a revival Raducanu posted a 7-2 record in its last three events, turned into the first 50 places for the first time in three years.
Importantly, Raducan is quieter, it looks like she is having fun again and competing with clarity.
At their first tour together in Miami Open in March, Raducanu overthrew three routine talented Americans –Emma Navarro, McCartney Kessler and Amanda Animova—So pushed us the open finalist Jessica Pegula into three groups before bending in the Miami quarterfinals.
Acknowledging that she sometimes presss the silent button in Tennis television analysts, Raducanu said she heard – and learned – from Petchey, who was the former Andy Murray coach.
“I’m not biased, but I like to hear it commenting. I think he’s a great commentator,” Raducanu said The Prakash Amritraj channel tennis. “I think he is someone I really want to hear. Sometimes I look at tennis and should be silent, while with him, I like to hear what he has to say.”
Raducanu, who made history as the first player – male or female – play through qualification and win a title of Grand Slam in 2021 US Open, credited her Petchey training block in Los Angeles with her latest success.
“He’s very interesting,” Raducanu said. “He has undoubtedly helped me a lot with Tennis, with outside the court. We did some really good work even in LA while he was with tennis Channel, and I’m really happy with the way everything is going.”
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Red Clay has been Raducanu’s least favorite surface, so the supporter says wait until she gets to the grass and see how well Petchey’s tutor in building points and applying her skills of all judges will work on the lawn.
Although Raducanu is tuned to the message now, what happens to the Prophet if/When Raducanu hits a harsh piece on the road again in Top 25?
Daniel Evans It says you don’t even need a 20/20 vision or a high ranking 20 to see how it ends.
Former world no. 21 Evans says a division in Raducanu-Petchey partnership is not only inevitable, but it can be close.
In fact, Evans eagerly says “can’t last” if the results of Raducanu go south.
“Can’t last if she starts missing matches and petchey is in the comment box, it won’t work,” Evans said BBC Radio 5 Live In comments published by British media. “I think Emma will again look for a new coach very soon if she starts missing some bar matches in the US pace.
“I’m not sure how it can last as it is.”
Implicated in Evans’ comments are the fact that 22-year-old Raducanu Axes coach almost routinely as Agatha Christie killed characters, the life of any WTA Tour coach can grow rapidly and Petchey, even if not directly commenting on Raducanu matches, has the platform to defeat her forces as a coach.
In tennis, do you produce couples of the partnership of the players’ players and star players?
Raducanu-Petchey partnership is hardly the first time an elite player has partner with a former returning analyst. Nor is the first time a broadcaster has given the television analysis of a player who have spent time training.
Fammer Boris Becker Hall has made television comments on his previous accusation, Novak Djokovic’s matches. Becker is a Mentor of World No.2 Alexander Zverev and has offered comments on the games of the former Golden Olympic Champion, too.
The Olympic Champion of the Gold Medal and TC senior analyst Lindsay Davenport has been the main analyst for some Madison Keys matches. Davenport previously trained Keys, who have been training for years at the Chris Evert Academy in Florida. Famer Chrissie Evert, a Mentor of Keys, predicted a long time that she would eventually penetrate and win a Grand Slam title during her comment in Keys matches.
Patrick Mouratoglou was an ESPN expert analyst while training Serena Williams. Williams lost to Naomi Osaka in a controversial US Open 2018 final that he saw the former rage number 1 in chair lawyer Carlos Ramos for a training violation accelerated by her coach sending the hand signals even though she was at the opposite end of the court.
In fact, during the ESPN coverage for the final, Mouratoglou owned by trying to train Trainer Serena in a direct interview with colleague Pam Shriver in which he stressed Uncle Nadal gave signals almost every single match. Fammer Shriver’s hall tracked the semi -finalist Wimbledon Donna Vekic, but was in the Croatian box, not in the ESPN cabin, while running in Final Four SW19 last year.
Analyst ESPN and former Olympic Gold Medal Champion Mary Joe Fernandez has commented on many players she trained when she was captain of the Fed Cup. The same is true for ESPN analyst and former US Davis Cup Patrick Mcenroe, who trained Andy Roddick to his US Open farewell.
Relations between coach/commentators and star players date back to tennis tennis in the 1970s.
Hall of CBS’s fame and leading analyst Tony Trabert trained several American stars, including John Mcenroe and Arthur Ashe in his role as captain of Davis Cup and worked their matches along with Pat Summerall. The famous hall and former player Donald Dell represented some of the stars he commented on, including Jimmy Connors, as a manager. The deceased, the great Hall of Famer Fred Solle, a long -term analyst for Australian ESPN and television, Trainoi Vitas Gerulaitis and was the original coach of his son Grand Slam Slam Sandon Solle.
So how will the Raducanu-Petchey plot line develop while it goes to the green pastures-and a larger control-playing on British lawns at home next month?
Like all attractive drama, we will all have to tune.
