Grand slam champion Emma Raducanu has announced her latest coaching split in the wake of a second-round exit at the Australian Open.
The 23-year-old, nearly five years removed from her remarkable US Open triumph as a qualifier, has cycled through an extraordinary number of coaches in her stop-start career.
She teamed up with Spaniard Francis Roig last August but announced on Thursday, with a photo of the pair on a golf course, that the partnership is already over.
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“Francis, thank you for our time together,” Raducanu wrote just days out from her next tournament in Romania.
“You have been more than a coach to me and I will cherish the many good times we spent together on and off the court.
“While we have come to the conclusion together that we ought not to move forward, please know that I am very grateful for all you have taught me and fond of our time shared.”
Roig worked with Rafael Nadal for more than 15 years during the legend’s long and successful peak.
But the coach has now had relatively brief stints with Raducanu and, before that, Italy’s Matteo Berrettini.
Roig joins the likes of Nick Cavaday, Nigel Seals, Andrew Richardson, Mark Petchey, Vlado Platenik, Seb Sachs, Dimitry Tursunov and Torben Beltz as former Raducanu coaches.
Francis Roig’s time as Emma Raducanu’s coach is over already. Credit: Getty
Cavaday was Raducanu’s mentor as a junior and most recently coached her in 2025 before stepping down to due to health reasons.
Platenik was in the role for just two weeks last year as Raducanu sought to fill the void left by Cavaday.
Sears and then Richardson were in the box for her 2021 breakthroughs at Wimbledon and the US Open respectively.
Raducanu telegraphed a possible switch from Roig immediately after her loss in Melbourne.
“I want to be playing a different way. I just want to hit the ball to the corners and hard,” she said.
“I feel like I’m doing all this variety, and it’s not doing what I want it to do.
“I need to work on playing in a way more similar to how I was playing when I was younger.”
Raducanu is set to remain world No.29 when the next world rankings are confirmed after the Australian Open.
The Briton has had a steady rise back towards the top since sinking to No.299 amid injuries in 2023.
But she has not reached a final at any level since her miraculous 2021 US Open triumph, while she has not had the luck of the draw to make a deeper run at a grand slam.
In 2025 Raducanu lost to Iga Swiatekat the Australian Open (third round) and French Open (second round) before going down to world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon (third round) and Elena Rybakina at the US Open (third round).
She was beaten by world No.55 Anastasia Potapova at this month’s Australian Open, and also lost to Australia’s world No.204 Taylah Preston in a Hobart lead-up tournament.
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