Emma Raducanu has parted company with another coach after Nick Cavaday stepped down from his role amid health concerns.

Cavaday has been suffering with a chronic health condition for some time. It meant that he missed certain sections of Raducanu’s build-up to the grass-court season last year, and was also unable to travel out to Australasia as early as he planned this winter.

The news means that Raducanu is looking for her seventh full-time coach in her three-and-a-half years as a professional.

When she makes an appointment, the new coach will join a sequence of names that runs through Nigel Sears, Andrew Richardson, Torben Beltz, Dmitry Tursunov, Sebastian Sachs and now finally Cavaday.

Raducanu will no doubt be disappointed, as she had been comfortable with Cavaday’s low-key, highly technical coaching style. And she also liked the fact that she had known him since she was an unknown junior, as is the case with her other close childhood ally Jane O’Donoghue.

Cavaday had originally been the man in charge of Bromley Tennis Academy when Raducanu was playing red, orange and green-ball tennis, and his insight into her game left him perfectly placed to oversee certain technical changes, including the beefing-up of her once vanilla forehand.

Admittedly, Raducanu came into this year’s Australian Open with a misfiring serve after further tinkering to her motion. But then, much of this probably stemmed from the back spasm that she suffered at the end of last season, which prevented her from fine-tuning her new action during the Christmas break.

“I am very happy to have been able to work with Emma over the last 14 months,” said Cavaday, who had become the longest-serving of Raducanu’s six coaches, in a statement. “[But] it’s important for me to spend some more time at home and prioritise getting back to full health, which is hard to do with the extensive calendar. I am glad Emma is back to being established on tour now with a ranking inside the top 60, and I look forward to seeing what she does from here.”

Raducanu also thanked Cavaday “for a great partnership over the last year and a bit, especially [as] post-surgeries he helped get me back inside the world’s top 60. I wish him all the best in his next chapter and no doubt we’ll stay in touch”.

She is due to play the WTA250 event in Singapore next week, having arrived there on Thursday following a week of training in Melbourne. She was eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open, losing 6-1, 6-0 to world No 2 Iga Swiatek.

Raducanu is accompanied by her recently appointed fitness trainer, Yutaka Nakamura. Her management suggested that she would not be rushing into a new coaching hire.