Raducanu begins work with fitness coach Nakamura

Emma Raducanu has started moving with Yutaka Nakamura, the fittingness manager known for his enactment with Maria Sharapova and Naomi Osaka.

The 22-year-old, who volition alert to Brisbane adjacent week for immoderate lukewarm upwind grooming earlier the caller season, says Nakamura volition beryllium with her "pretty overmuch astir weeks" of the year.

Injuries person acted arsenic a persistent handbrake connected Raducanu's vocation since she won the US Open arsenic a teen successful 2021.

But pursuing a proceedings earlier successful the autumn, she feels present is the close clip to adhd a dedicated fittingness adept to her team.

"I deliberation helium is going to assistance maine conscionable truly research however acold I tin go, similar athletically," Raducanu said.

"I deliberation it's a large spot of excavation that I person obscurity adjacent fulfilled. I deliberation I tin go 1 of the champion athletes retired determination successful tennis and I'm conscionable looking guardant to seeing however overmuch I tin do.

"My earthy athleticism is thing that I person to use. I person to hone it, I person to polish it, it's inactive beauteous earthy and I don't deliberation anyplace adjacent afloat developed truthful he's going to assistance maine research that."

Nakamura has been grooming with Raducanu and her manager Nick Cavaday astatine the National Tennis Centre successful London each week.

After Christmas successful New Zealand, Raducanu volition commencement the play successful Auckland astatine the extremity of December and besides hopes to play successful Adelaide earlier the Australian Open begins connected 12 January.