Emma Raducanu has revealed that she is not looking for a new coach after sacking Rafael Nadal’s former mentor Francisco Roig in January.
The former US Open champion had agreed to extend her partnership with Roig in December after initially hiring him on a short-term basis after last year’s Wimbledon.
But amid an uneven start to her 2026 season, the pair parted ways shortly after her second-round exit at the Australian Open.
Raducanu has since been working with Alexis Canter, a former British player, and her compatriot oversaw her run at the Transylvania Open at the start of the month – her first final since her star turn at Flushing Meadows nearly five years ago.
‘Right now, I wouldn’t say I’m actively looking for a coach,’ Raducanu said as she was unveiled as a new global brand ambassador for Uniqlo in a £2.6million deal. ‘I think I had a great experience with Francis in terms of how we got on so well… the rapport was great.
‘I think in the end, we just weren’t aligning on certain key aspects. But we still maintain a good relationship.’
New Uniqlo brand ambassador Emma Raducanu has claimed she will not look to find a new coach immediately
The British No 1 sacked Francisco Roig at the end of January after an uneven start to 2026
The 23-year-old and the Spaniard enjoyed an extended off-season following Raducanu’s October withdrawal from the Ningbo Open after battling illness during the Asian swing.
But as Roig and Raducanu attempted to reshape her game for the better, the Briton looked muddled and less fluid as she started the year with a string of early tournament exits.
For now, Raducanu stressed, she was happy to continue working with Canter and keen to harness the familiarity their relationship affords her.
‘Right now I have Alexis in my corner,’ she added. ‘He knows me as a person. He knows me as a player.
‘And I’ve actually had some success with him in the past year in Washington (where she beat Naomi Osaka and reached the semi-finals) and in Cluj… so it’s going well.
‘I know the drills that I need to be doing right now in this moment in time – just repetition of doing those key fundamentals.
‘I think I want to go back to that and (develop) a more aggressive style of playing.’
Raducanu has been struggling to play with the ‘after effects’ of a virus since her time in Romania, but is keen to be fit and firing for the next opportunity to stake her claim on a Masters 1000 title at Indian Wells next month.
Ill-health played a role in her early exit at the Dubai Open last week, which saw her fall in three sets to lucky loser Antonia Ruzic in the first round.
Ahead of the start of the tournament, Raducanu will have hoped to banish her demons in the Middle East, after last year’s event saw the player left in tears during her second round match against Karolina Muchova following the appearance of a man displaying fixated behaviour in the stands.
Raducanu had previously been approached by the individual, who had followed her to four tournaments that year, in a cafe a few days earlier, and he was later handed a restraining order.
When asked about the pressure of social media abuse online on Tuesday, Raducanu admitted that she had reached a point of unwilling acceptance.
‘For me, I’ve accepted that it’s going to keep happening,’ she added. ‘Whatever everyone tries to do about it, it seems like there are just too many people – that there’s no real way to stop it.
‘It comes with the territory of being in the spotlight or having a public presence. If I wasn’t achieving anything then no one would speak about me, so I think being aware of that and just accepting that there’s no way of stopping it is important.’
