Posts from ROSAMUND, end-Jan 2021:

"In the absence of head coach Dimitri Zavialoff, Dan Smethurst is with Jo in Melbourne."

"Alex Ward is Heather's coach in Melbourne 2021."

"Andy Bettles well featured in Simon Briggs Sunday Telegraph article on British coaches who are blazing a trail in women's tennis.He's with Elina Svitolina in Melbourne. He's a successful coach along with Tom Hill with Maria Sakkari. The comment is made that the pair have reached a level where they now have enough stature to walk into another job."

ROSAMUND wrote:

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They say the average life of a  tennis coach is about 18 months so Andy with Elina for 2.5 years is doing pretty well. Tom is  over the 18 months with Maria  Sakkari as he first registered with  me  in  May 2019 when she beat Jo in the Rabat final.

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 This is terrible facts

I see Sears and Kontaveit have parted ways after 3 years. I used to like listening to Sears during their on court coaching sessions, I actually really miss that element of the women's game full stop (on the WTA tour anyway). I also thought he was a good pundit / commentator during his odd stint on BT Sport back in the day.

Interesting to see what both do next.

Coup Droit wrote:

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 major overuse of the word 'myself' 

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 A huge bugbear of mine!

Ace Ventura wrote:

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I see Sears and Kontaveit have parted ways after 3 years. I used to like listening to Sears during their on court coaching sessions, I actually really miss that element of the women's game full stop (on the WTA tour anyway). I also thought he was a good pundit / commentator during his odd stint on BT Sport back in the day.

Interesting to see what both do next.

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 This may have been mentioned elsewhere. Nigel Sears is the new coach of Sorana Cîrstea.

Interested to read what Emma's dad was looking for in coaches.

He subscribes to the view, apparently, that you should have a lot of different coaches.

He think that way you get to pick up nuggets of wisdom, tactics, etc from a wide range, which gives you a broader skill and tactic base.

Others I guess may think you just end up confused.

But it makes quite a lot of sense - I wouldn't want my kid to have the same maths or English teacher from age 12 to 18 - so why tennis coach.

Ian Rad took it as far as trying to find a different coach for each shot. But I think he had to abandon that idea.

However, it's true that some of our players who've been with the same coach for ages might like to think about the wisdom of that (why do I always think of Katie Boulter????? )

And it certainly seems to have worked well with Emma - she has a wide base of different coaches to draw upon.

As per Andy Richardson for this US leg.

Big congrats to Andy Richardson for 2021 US Open Coach Award - amazing work he's done these weeks - well done to the Raducanus for choosing him, their reasons were SO sound and well thought out. And to what he brought.

Mike Dickson
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4h
Nice tradition. Andrew Richardson gets US Open coaching trophy presented by ER.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 12th of September 2021 06:26:33 AM