Radical move

TWO WEEKS AFTER AXING HER MENTOR, NEW US OPEN CHAMP EMMA ADMITS: 1 NEED A COACH... IF FREE, PLEASE APPLY

- NEIL McLEMAN

EMMA RADUCANU issued a public appeal for a top coach to join her team after losing the first match since her US Open triumph.

The British No.1 became the first qualifier in history to win a Grand Slam without even dropping a set.

But the teenager, who wowed Flushing Meadows with her fearless hitting, made a catalogue of errors in the Californian desert as she went down 6-2 6-4 to world No.100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the BNP Paribas Open.

It is hardly a crisis for the new tennis superstar who shot to worldwide fame last month.

Yet the decision to split with Andrew Richardson (above left), who guided her to victory in New York, now seems bizarre before appointing a new coach.