Raducanu reunites with coach Nick Cavaday before Australian Open
The 2021 US Open champion, sidelined for much of 2023 after ankle and wrist surgeries, has been working with a series of LTA coaches since returning to the practice courts in October.
The 21-year-old has had a sequence of short-lived coaches since turning professional, but it is understood both she and Cavaday have the desire to work together beyond the Australian Open.
She and Briton Cavaday have begun working together in Melbourne before Tuesday's charity match against Naomi Osaka.
Raducanu practised for two hours, with the help of a hitting partner, under the roof of the Rod Laver Arena on Monday after a second consecutive day of persistent rain in Melbourne.
Cavaday, who was head coach of the LTA's Loughborough Academy until April of last year, also spent time on court with Raducanu in London before Christmas.
But the decision that the 37-year-old would fly out to Melbourne to coach Raducanu at the Australian Open was only made in the last week.
"I've known Nick since I was 10 years old and he was helping me out the last week at the NTC [National Tennis Centre]. Before that the LTA helped me a ton," Raducanu said while competing on the WTA Tour in Auckland last week.
Like Jane O'Donoghue, who assisted Raducanu in Auckland last week, Cavaday worked with the former British number one when she was a junior.
A former Futures Tour player, Cavaday coached British players Aljaz Bedene (who later reverted to Slovenian nationality) and Dom Inglot before spending four and a half years at the Loughborough Academy.
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