Emma Raducanu in discussions with Mark Petchey over coaching role

Emma Raducanu is in discussions with Mark Petchey about appointing him as her new coach.

A final agreement has not yet been reached, but sources have told BBC Sport the Briton would like Andy Murray's former coach to head up her team.

Petchey, a former top-100 player, was in the coaching box alongside Jane O'Donoghue at March's Miami Open, where Raducanu reached the quarter-finals and produced her best tennis of the year.

Raducanu said at the time that she had some "really good people around me who I trust" during the week in Florida.

Petchey coached an 18-year-old Andy Murray for 10 months - during which he won his first ATP title - and trained with Raducanu during the pandemic summer of 2020.

Those weeks at the National Tennis Centre in London appear to have left quite an impression on the 22-year-old and there is a mutual respect and rapport between the two.

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