I want to work with Emma Raducanu

The revered coach who put Serena Williams on the road to greatness hopes to help revive Emma Laducanu’s career by making her “invulnerable”.

But Rick March also warned, “I don’t know what she’s thinking,” adding that real progress would require Raducanu to show “hungry and belief.”

Raducanu has not played since April after undergoing surgeries on both wrists and ankles. Two years after her sensational victory at the U.S. Open as an 18-year-old, she has plummeted to No. 289 in the world and has been without a coach since splitting from Sebastian Sachs in June.

Sachs is the fifth coach Raducanu, who turned 21 this month, has worked with in two years. In a recent interview with the BBC’s Today programme, she said “they (her coaches) failed to keep up with the questions I asked.”

March — the unforgettable character played by actor Jon Bernthal in the Oscar-winning “King Richard” — trained Serena and Venus Williams, Ann The talents of tennis greats like Dee Roddick and Jennifer Capriati. Now, the American says he’s delighted at the chance to work with Raducanu.

The 68-year-old from Florida said: “I spoke to her agent but he told her parents to deal with the coaching appointment.

“I’m not a travel coach and people come to me. I can help her mentally and strategically, which is unique. I don’t know where her head is at and if she has the desire and belief to be the best.

“If you look at Carlos Alcaraz, he was successful at a young age and everything changed, but he was ready and he was ready. I don’t know Emma doesn’t know what’s going on in her head, but you don’t lose your talents and abilities.

“Yes, you might lose a little bit of confidence and fitness, but technically she’s very good – otherwise you wouldn’t win a Grand Slam. If she really wants to be one of the best players in the world – And she has the skills – then you need to deal with the pressure that comes with that.

“She should want the pressure. You go through all this training to be a professional and hopefully be the best in the world. She has to be able to handle what comes with that. She has to be ready to deal with the media.

“To say that she sometimes wishes she hadn’t won the U.S. Open because of the mental and physical stress it puts on her, that goes both ways; if she’s going to hear every little thing about her, that’s not going to work, You have to be invulnerable and I can help her.

“You need the ability to forget as much as the ability to remember, and she had to learn from the adversity she faced.”