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Dmitry Tursunov says he determined to cease teaching Emma Raducanu on the finish of his trial interval with the tennis star due to “pink flags” that he couldn’t ignore.
The Russian had been working with the 19-year-old after she break up with full-time coach Torben Beltz in April however has since stated the pair couldn’t agree on phrases.
Tursunov is now working with Olympic champion Belinda Bencic however says that was not the explanation he left Raducanu.
“I used to be strolling away from Emma no matter whether or not there was one other [player] out there or not,” he instructed tennismajors.com, in an interview printed on Wednesday.
“We didn’t agree on the phrases and there have been some pink flags that simply couldn’t be ignored. In order that’s why it’s a bit irritating to learn issues like that.
“I wasn’t hopping from one participant to a different, I wouldn’t try this.”
Raducanu burst onto the scene in 2021, reaching the fourth spherical at Wimbledon earlier than profitable the US Open.
The then 18-year-old grew to become the primary qualifier in both males’s or ladies’s tennis to achieve a grand slam remaining, not to mention win one.
Accidents, poor kind and modifications to her teaching employees have contributed to disappointing outcomes ever since and {the teenager} is now ranked 76th on this planet.
Earlier this month, she pulled out of the Transylvania Open on account of a wrist damage.
Regardless of her struggling to settle into the WTA Tour, Tursunov was filled with reward for his former participant.
“To start with, she’s completely nice, she’s a tough employee and he or she doesn’t assume or act like she’s a celebrity,” he added.
“She is hungry to enhance and is obsessive about tennis. I believe it’s fairly a uncommon mixture. So I actually beloved working along with her, and I actually wished to make it work. It was a really troublesome resolution for me to stroll away from a participant that I like and respect.
“In my view, she’s minimal a one-year challenge, however I might say that she’s in all probability a two-and-a-half-year challenge to be on the protected aspect.
“After all, it’s laborious to say that and it’s laborious for folks to know how it’s doable as a result of she already received the US Open. However, for my part, her sport may be very uncooked, and I believe in some ways it may use numerous enchancment.”
CNN has reached out to Raducanu’s staff for remark however has not acquired a reply.
