Günter Bresnik about Thomas Muster: "Every top 100 player can benefit"
After the sudden separation of Dominic Thiem from his "super coach " Thomas Muster , Thiem's long-time trainer Günter Bresnik has now spoken out. The 57-year-old regrets the end of the collaboration, because it could have led to success, as he himself thinks.
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"So far, Dominic has played a good tournament despite the coaching discussion, everything is possible in the second week," Bresnik told the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten before the duel with Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. "Dominic is so good that he is the number one His first Grand Slam victory is only a matter of time. "
Bresnik logically sees the development of Thiem's relationship with patterns as unfortunate. "It was probably not optimal to focus on the cooperation in the media, especially at a Grand Slam tournament," he said, although he remarked: "It would also have been interesting for me to see what it was like to work with a former world-class player how patterns would have brought Dominic after a year. Every top 100 player can still benefit from the experience of a pattern. ”
Günter Bresnik about Team Thiem
Bresnik did not want to speculate about the exact reasons for the separation. Bresnik once worked as a trainer and manager for Thiems, but now these roles are clearly divided: Nicolas Massu works with father Wolfgang on the square, Herwig Straka takes on the tasks of organization, marketing and media. "Now there is a large group of people around him, in which all specialists are in certain areas, but who also want to have a say everywhere."
Bresnik himself was thrilled at the Australian Open with his protégé Ernests Gulbis, who at least struggled through the qualification and failed in the third round against Gael Monfils. If the Latvian had also overcome this hurdle, he would have met Thiem. "It was good," said Bresnik about Gulbis, who took a seeded player out of the tournament with Felix Auger-Aliassime.