Australian Open: Brady and Geserer - the team of the hour in world tennis
Jennifer Brady is in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time after the US Open 2020. Her German coach Michael Geserer played a major role in this.
by Jörg Allmeroth
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Feb 17, 2021, 05:00 pm
Jennifer Brady was also asked about her latest Grand Slam coup how the collaboration with her trainer Michael Geserer works. “He has the plan. And I'll do what he says, ”the American explained briefly in the chat with the world press. Brady and Geserer (51), the Bavarian trainer, are also something like the team of the hour at the Australian Open. At the US Open, the 25-year-old from Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) advanced to the semifinals at Geserer's side, now she repeated this tennis bang in Melbourne thanks to a three-set victory over compatriot Jessica Pegula. "At the moment I'm living my dream," says Brady, who fought for the finalticket against the CzechKarolina Muchova on Thursday night.
Brady's recent success story is all the more remarkable as she had to go into tougher quarantine before the first major of the season and was trapped in her hotel room for 14 days. As the only player ever from the traveling circus, despite this handicap, she made it into the second week of the tournament, thanks to the pragmatism and imperturbability that Geserer had demanded: "The motto was: We can't change this situation, so we'll make the best of it," says Brady, "I was even able to relax a bit during this time."
Also coach of Julia Görges
The cross connections between Geserer, Brady, the beautiful town of Regensburg and a certain Julia Görges seem strange. Geserer was also the coach of Görges for some time and was partly responsible for a late renaissance of the German national player. Then Görges separated somewhat abruptly from Geserer, who only started touring again in 2019 - with Brady. The German-American duo spent a lot of practice time together in Regensburg, where Görges also has her new center of life.
In the Corona crisis, things developed dramatically for the two women: Görges lost more and more motivation in the course of the month-long lockdown, discovered new happiness in life away from the Center Courts and in the fall was already playing with thoughts of resignation. She didn't even go to the US Open because of the arduous corona regulations. But there, in the Big Apple, Brady's star began to shine brightly for the first time - the woman who had completed all her preparation in Regensburg. Brady defeated the former world number one Angelique Kerber in the second round, but was only stopped in the semifinals by the eventual tournament winner Naomi Osaka. She had become “a completely different player” with Geserer, said Brady at the time, praising her instructor, who had once been on the Tingeltour himself and who later wrote the first headlines for Philipp Kohlschreiber as a coach. Görges, his second well-known business partner, took early retirement at the end of the season.
Geserer nominated as coach of the year
Geserer, an always calm, level-headed and clearly structured pedagogue, received an honorary award from the German Tennis Association for his coaching work in 2018, at that time his work for the Regensburg women's team, which he led from the regional league into the Bundesliga as the responsible manager - and there for two titles. At the end of 2020, alongside Poland's Piotr Sierzputowski (coach of French Open winner Iga Swiatek ) and Belgian Wim Fissette (coach of Naomi Osaka ), he was even named WTA Trainer of the Year 2020. "Choosing him as a coach was the best decision in my career so far," said Australian Open semi-finalist Brady about the last German in Melbourne. With the 51-year-old Brady is now aiming for the next big career goal, a place in the top ten in the world rankings.
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