Raducanu ends coaching trial with Platenik

Emma Raducanu in action at the Miami Open — Emma Raducanu's victory at the Miami Open was her first win as a professional at the tournament [Getty Images]

Emma Raducanu's coaching trial with Vladimir Platenik is over after just two weeks.

The British number two won her Miami Open first-round match against Japanese teenager Sayaka Ishii in straight sets on Wednesday.

However, Platenik was absent from her coaching box, having flown to California two days before Raducanu's first-round defeat by Moyuka Uchijima in Indian Wells earlier this month.

The two had been training together in the run-up to this week's tournament, but the brief trial ended on Tuesday.

It was Raducanu's decision - the 22-year-old's representatives say she has the "utmost respect" for Platenik but the relationship "wasn't quite heading in the right direction".

The 49-year-old recently gave an outspoken interview to the Slovak newspaper Dennik N, in which he suggested they had a tentative agreement to work together until May's French Open.

Platenik, who has worked previously with Daria Kasatkina and Dominika Cibulkova, is highly rated as a coach.

But one former player described him as a "freight train" - saying he was full of intensity and self-confidence, with a personality that was not always easy to handle.

Raducanu did not seem affected on court as she beat Ishii 6-2 6-1 and will face the American eighth seed Emma Navarro in the second round on Friday.

Jane O'Donoghue, a friend who has worked with Raducanu on an ad-hoc basis over the past couple of years, was in the coaching box alongside Colin Beecher - who runs the LTA's National Tennis Centre in London.

Raducanu said in Indian Wells that Platenik was "very serious and very professional", but stressed it was too early to know how they would get on both on and off the court.

They had some previous experience together, having worked for two weeks on a trial basis when Raducanu was 17.

The 2021 US Open champion has been without a permanent coach since Nick Cavaday stood down for health reasons after January's Australian Open.

Raducanu had previously worked with a wide range of coaches including Nigel Sears, Andrew Richardson - who was in charge during her run to the title in New York - Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov and Sebastian Sachs.

Raducanu breezes to victory in Miami

Raducanu took just over an hour to beat Ishii in Miami.

She had lost in the first round of Indian Wells earlier this month in what was her first match since the traumatic experience of dealing with a stalker at a tournament in Dubai.

"I am really proud of how I competed. It hasn't been easy for me coming into this but I feel I put in a good performance," said Raducanu.

"I hadn't won a match here before in my professional career. I am just so happy to now be able to score a win."

There was a little hesitancy early on from Raducanu but she broke her opponent at the first time of asking and became stronger from then on.

Unforced errors also did not help Ishii's cause, with the 19-year-old making 12 compared to six for Raducanu in the first set.

By then, the damage was done and Raducanu made light work of her opponent, winning the next five games in a row before serving to seal the second set 6-1.

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