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Emma Raducanu and Iain Bates
Emma Raducanu is working with Iain Bates in Madrid this week

It was a tough decision to split with her coach after only five months, but Emma is very confident in her training.

Iain Bates, the head of women's coaching at the LTA, is in Madrid this week.

Torren is a great guy. The world number 11 said that he enjoyed his time with him.

It was difficult to split with someone like that since he is one of the nicer people I have met.

I feel very comfortable with my training right now. I feel very confident in what I am doing and how I am working.

For my first six months on the tour, it was very valuable to have someone with tour experience with me.

In the first round of the Madrid Open on Friday, she will face Czech Tereza Martincova, who she defeated in the recent Billie Jean King Cup qualification.

The LTA will support her as she searches for a new coach, but she knows what she needs in the interim.

She said she would probably be putting more emphasis on sparring.

It is becoming more apparent to me as I spend more time on the tour, it is just getting used to these girls.

I like to mix it up. I like to work in a specific way and I know what I want to do. A lot of the time those ideas come from me.

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