Gustavo Kuerten - No time for Stefanos Tsitsipas
The three-time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten will not return to the ATP tour as a super coach. Stefanos Tsitsipas asked a few days ago without any obligation.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jun 09, 2020, 09:57 pm
Similarities to living people are purely coincidental. Filmmakers like to add something like this to their works to prevent possible complaints from people who do not feel comfortable with actual representations on the screen or on TV. Neither Gustavo Kuerten nor Stefanos Tsitsipas will take any offense if you say: just as the young Tsitsipas flew over the places in Roland Garros in recent years, he is very reminiscent of the then young Kuerten at the end of the 1990s . With the significant difference that the Brazilian won the title in 1997. And Tsitsipas had failed in the last two years because of two masters of ashes: 2018 against Dominic Thiem, last year in what was probably the best match of the entire tournament against Stan Wawrinka .
Now, of course, Gustavo Kuerten had the advantage in his time that he was able to work before the triumph of the triumvirate Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic . However, one should not forget that the Brazilian defeated the two champions of previous years in his first run for the title with Thomas Muster in round three and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the quarterfinals. Both in five sentences, by the way.
Kuerten as a math coach
So that is exactly the expertise that Stefanos Tsitsipas would like to draw on. "Guga? I would like to commit that as a coach. I really would! ”Said Tsitsipas in one of his numerous social media chats in recent days. "I saw a couple of matches from him when I was young. Most in Roland Garros. He was of course one of the players you had to see. I really liked his game. It seemed so much fun to him, he was relaxed and natural, the way he played. "
Unfortunately, Gustavo Kuerten is not available. It is very nice that Tsitsipas thinks of him, said Kuerten in a Eurosport conversation with Alex Corretja and Mats Wilander. "It would be a great experience. But not for me because I have two very young children (six and eight years old) to look after. In truth, I'm already a coach. There are days when I am a math coach. Others a Portuguese coach ... "