The tennis coaching carousel started spinning early this year. This is how it works
For participants and lovers of the tennis coaching carousel, it’s been quite a month or so. At the end of March, Iga Świątek fired Wim Fissette, the coach who helped her to the Wimbledon title last year. Fissette and Świątek had evolved parts of the six-time Grand Slam champion’s game, but not to the extent that they both wanted.
Świątek needed a new coach. So she hired Francisco Roig, a longtime member of Rafael Nadal’s team. Roig, who had recently split with Emma Raducanu, was not a free agent
For participants and lovers of the tennis coaching carousel, it’s been quite a month or so. At the end of March, Iga Świątek fired Wim Fissette , the coach who helped her to the Wimbledon title last year . Fissette and Świątek had evolved parts of the six-time Grand Slam champion’s game, but not to the extent that they both wanted.
Świątek needed a new coach. So she hired Francisco Roig , a longtime member of Rafael Nadal’s team. Roig, who had recently split with Emma Raducanu , was not a free agent.
He was working with Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, the Frenchman with the biggest serve in the men’s game. No matter. Roig left Mpetshi Perricard and his agent to find someone else, so Mpetshi Perricard teamed up with Greg Rusedski, a big server himself, out of little more than thin air.
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