{"id":27770,"date":"2026-04-03T01:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/iga-swiatek-appoints-francisco-roig-rafael-nadal-and-emma-raducanus-former-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:10:43","slug":"iga-swiatek-appoints-francisco-roig-rafael-nadal-and-emma-raducanus-former-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/iga-swiatek-appoints-francisco-roig-rafael-nadal-and-emma-raducanus-former-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek appoints Francisco Roig, Rafael Nadal and Emma Raducanu’s former coach"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Being able to ping a message to one of the greatest players of all-time is a perk which Swiatek has taken full advantage of.<\/p>\n

She has often contacted Nadal for advice and reached out last month to discuss her coaching situation after Fissette’s departure.<\/p>\n

With Swiatek looking to rediscover her mojo before the French Open, the King of Clay had an obvious recommendation: the man who was a key cog in his team for all 22 Grand Slam victories.<\/p>\n

Roig worked alongside Nadal’s principal coaches \u2013 his uncle Toni Nadal and later Carlos Moya – but was credited as the brains behind the technical changes which the swashbuckling Spaniard regularly made during his career to stay at the very top.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Polish media,, external<\/span><\/a> Swiatek said she wants to return to being “a rock on the court”.<\/p>\n

That means not resorting to the wild, aggressive hitting which she has shown when under pressure in recent months, but instead rediscovering her stability at the baseline to keep returning balls.<\/p>\n

The intention is to force mistakes from her opponents or drag them out of position before landing a killer blow herself. <\/p>\n

This style led to four titles at Roland Garros, where she has used her topspin forehand to devastating effect. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Roig, whose length of deal is unknown, feels like a good fit for Swiatek. However, his solo work with players since leaving Nadal’s team – including Raducanu – has not been as fruitful as hoped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Being able to ping a message to one of the greatest players of all-time is a perk which Swiatek has taken full advantage of. She has often contacted Nadal for advice and reached out last month to discuss her coaching situation after Fissette’s departure. With Swiatek looking to rediscover her mojo before the French Open, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27772,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions\/27772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}