Günter Bresnik in Tenerife - a run of top players
Günter Bresnik is currently holding his annual training camp in Tenerife. In addition to his protégés Gael Monfils and Dennis Novak , there are also a number of other top players.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Dec 17, 2021, 07:34 am
If you are preparing for a tennis season on Tenerife with Günter Bresnik, you can safely leave the gala outfits at home for any evening excursions into the social life of the holiday island. After all, the idea is not only to survive four to five hours of match tennis in a few weeks in the Australian summer, but also to score the last point in the heat. For most of the players in Tenerife these days, things will of course get serious sooner. After all, competing in Melbourne without match practice would be fatal. In terms of sport as well as health.
Although there are question marks associated with the first appearances: Dennis Novak, Austria's number two, joined Bresnik's training group two weeks ago. The first competition is scheduled to take place in Sydney at the ATP Cup in 2022. But that also depends on Dominic Thiem's training progress. Should Thiem prefer to make his comeback later, Novak would start as an Austrian frontrunner. If the red-white-red team keeps its starting place at all. Because that is linked to Thiem's world ranking position (assumption: yes, because otherwise a substitute nation would have to be brought to the start at short notice).
Monfils and Svitolina toil on Tenerife
Gael Monfils, who has been training with Coach Bresnik for about a year, wants to know exactly again, and will be accompanied by Richard Ruckelshausen again to Australia. Monfils has been preparing for the upcoming season in Tenerife for three weeks. France will be absent from the ATP Cup, so the veteran does not have this option. And his wife Elina Svitolina is also working alongside Monfils for a possible first Grand Slam victory. After all: Every now and then Svitolina still finds the time to quickly win the Internet via Instagram.
David Goffin also stopped by. And not for the first time. The Belgian, after a long period of suffering with great comeback ambitions in 2022, has had two solid weeks of training on Tenerife. Zsombor Piros is also a man who won the Davis Cup finals in Turin in the Hungarian team against both John Millman and Marin Cilic. In addition, Jay Clarke is a Brit who wants to finally make the breakthrough on the ATP tour in the coming year.
Günter Bresnik himself has also found a few young players to be ready for the island, such as Lukas Neumayer or the 21-year-old Russian Alexander Shevchenko. After all, you can never learn early enough what it takes to get to the top in world tennis.