Emma Raducanu's former coach says he left due to 'crimson flags'

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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 “crimson 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] accessible or not,” he informed tennismajors.com, in an interview printed on Wednesday.

“We didn’t agree on the phrases and there have been some crimson flags that simply couldn’t be ignored. In order that’s why it’s a little bit irritating to learn issues like that.

“I wasn’t hopping from one participant to a different, I wouldn’t do 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 girls’s tennis to achieve a grand slam closing, not to mention win one.

Accidents, poor kind and adjustments to her teaching workers have contributed to disappointing outcomes ever since and the teenager is now ranked 76th on the earth.

Earlier this month, she pulled out of the Transylvania Open resulting from a wrist damage.

Regardless of her struggling to settle into the WTA Tour, Tursunov was stuffed with reward for his former participant.

“Initially, she’s completely nice, she’s a tough employee and he or she doesn’t suppose or act like she’s a celebrity,” he added.

“She is hungry to enhance and is obsessive about tennis. I feel it’s fairly a uncommon mixture. So I actually cherished working together with her, and I actually wished to make it work. It was a really troublesome determination for me to stroll away from a participant that I like and respect.

“For my part, she’s minimal a one-year mission, however I'd say that she’s in all probability a two-and-a-half-year mission to be on the secure aspect.

“In fact, it’s exhausting to say that and it’s exhausting for individuals to know how it's attainable as a result of she already gained the US Open. However, for my part, her sport could be very uncooked, and I feel in some ways it may use a variety of enchancment.”

Muricas News has reached out to Raducanu’s crew for remark however has not acquired a reply.