Emma Raducanu’s season has taken a turn for the worse after suffering another early tournament exit.
The 22-year-old began her 2025 Australian Open campaign brightly, with Raducanu securing two straight sets wins in the early rounds of the year’s first Grand Slam.
However, the 2021 US Open champion was brought back down to earth as Raducanu was thrashed 6-1 6-0 by Iga Swiatek in Melbourne.
After suffering a first-round loss against world number 101 Cristina Bucsa in the Singapore Open in January, she lost her opening match in the Abu Dhabi Open to former Wimbledon winner Marketa Vondrousova on Tuesday.
The former world number 10 now faces an uncertain period, with Raducanu yet to decide on her schedule ahead of the rest of the Middle East tennis swing.
Emma Raducanu faces uncertain future
Following this latest loss, a result which takes her 2025 record to two wins and two defeats, the world number 56 has a decision on her hands.
Does she play at the WTA Tour 1000 event in Doha on February 9, followed by another 1000-level competition in Dubai a week later?
Or will Raducanu rest after complaining of a neck injury during her 6-3 6-4 loss to Vondrousova in Abu Dhabi?
When asked about her upcoming tournament plans, she told The National at the weekend: “I have no idea. I’m going to take it week by week.
“See how I am, see how the body is and see what kind of plan we put in place, I guess. But I’m not thinking too far ahead, just trying to take it day by day in the current situations.”
Looking ahead to the new season, Raducanu is also looking for a new coach after splitting from Nick Cavaday following the Australian Open.
Emma Raducanu’s growing list of ex-coaches
Raducanu, who missed the majority of the 2023 season with ankle and wrist surgeries, shocked many when she announced she was no longer working with Cavaday.
The Brit, who worked with Cavaday during her time as a junior, revealed they had gone their separate ways as the 38-year-old wanted to prioritise getting back to “full health”.
Raducanu is now looking for her seventh full-time coach of her young professional career.
| Raducanu’s coaches | Coaching period |
| 1. Nigel Sears | Raducanu’s first coach, who stopped working with her after the then teenager’s Wimbledon 2021 exit |
| 2. Andrew Richardson | A youth coach who led Raducanu to her US Open title in August 2021 |
| 3. Torben Beltz | Appointed in November 2021 but left after five months |
| 4. Dmitry Tursunov | Begins working with Raducanu in July 2022, only to depart after less than four months |
| 5. Sebastian Sachs | The German coach began working with her in late 2022 before exiting in May 2023 |
| 6. Nick Cavaday | Links up with old coach Cavaday before the 2024 Australian Open and lasts a year |
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