Jan de Witt - Learned a lot from Pierre Paganini and Günter Bresnik
And again a well-known coach with whom Christopher Kas exchanged views on "Kasi Live" (weekdays from 6 p.m. on our Instagram channel "tennisnetnews"): Jan de Witt , currently on tour with Nikoloz Basilashvili.
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May 06, 2020, 09:26 pm
If a man can get more out of Christopher Kas than he suspected himself, it is the coach whom the Süddeutsche Zeitung had recently described as the best tennis coach in Germany: Jan de Witt. And that was exactly what he got from the Breakpoint Base in Hale / Westphalia on Wednesday evening at "Kasi Live". And told about an eventful life as a trainer.
At the moment de Witt is taking care of Nikoloz Basilashvili, who is with his family in Tbilisi. And for whom the current break would not be so badly timed, after all, the Georgian had to undergo an elbow surgery last November.
In his career, de Witt already had people like Dick Norman, Victor Troicki (the player who most surpassed the expectations formulated together), Jarkko Nieminen or Gilles Simon ("one of the smartest people in the tennis circus") on the ATP tour alone. coached.
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Exciting time with Gael Monfils
And for ten months also Gael Monfils (incidentally parallel to Simon, which led to the strange situation at Wimbledon 2015 that de Witt's players had to compete against each other in the third round. Of the ten months with Monfils, nine and a half were pure joy, among other things the 2014 Davis Cup final in Lille against Switzerland, where Monfils defeated a not very fit Roger Federer on the first day, but failed to play against Stan Wawrinka on Sunday because Federer had previously scored the third point against Richard Gasquet.
An important characteristic for a trainer, according to de Witt, is that it is always open to new things. And to exchange ideas with other coaches. He had learned a lot from Pierre Paganini and Günter Bresnik in this regard: de Witt had close contact with Paganini during his time as Marco Chiudinelli's coach, although there were often completely contradictory approaches with the Austrian star coach. But the talks with Bresnik are always enriching.