Daniil Medvedev has added former World No.6 and 14-time ATP titlist Gilles Simon to his teaching staff. In information first reported by Tennis Majors, Medvedev’s present coach Gilles Cervara says that Simon’s function has no particular title, however might be vital.
“Gilles Simon’s title doesn’t matter,” Cervara instructed Tennis Majors. “What is going to depend is the standard of our work, the concord of our contributions, and the outcomes. That’s what’s essential.”
Medvedev and Simon might be collectively subsequent week in Dubai and have tentative plans for Simon to take a number of the journey burden off Cervara’s shoulders this spring, particularly at Madrid and this 12 months’s Paris Masters.
“He’s an addition to the staff,” Medvedev instructed Tennis Majors. “He’s going to assist us transfer ahead, assist us win titles, and assist me grow to be a greater participant.”
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Medvedev stresses that Cervara, who has labored with Medvedev since 2017, will nonetheless be the primary man in his staff.
“We [will] see the way it goes. To this point it has been going good. Hopefully it’s for a really very long time however that is determined by quite a lot of components. We’ll see how a lot time he spends. For positive Gilles Cervara might be extra time with me than Gilles Simon. That’s the way it works as a result of that’s the way it was. We’ll see what the longer term brings as to what number of weeks he might be with us.”
Most essential, Medvedev appears ahead to having the Frenchman in his ear relating to making refined enhancements to his sport on totally different surfaces and as an attacking participant.
Throughout his profession Simon’s status as an mental, tactically tuned in participant has by no means been in query. He has all the time been seen as an clever tactician and a participant who has achieved “extra with much less.”
“My expectations are that Gilles Simon is a really sensible participant that may assist me enhance my sport – particularly hoping to enhance components of my sport which might be perhaps not the perfect. To this point it’s been going good.”
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