Eugenie Bouchard And Coach Nick Saviano Split

Any takers?

November 25th, 2014 at 10:52 am

Yeah, what the heck. I’m in.

November 25th, 2014 at 11:27 am

I’m still updating my resume as I don’t have the job just yet! Please relax Genie fans.

November 25th, 2014 at 11:43 am

I live about 15 minutes from her parent’s house in Westmount. If tennis weren’t such an international sport, I’d send in my resume.

November 25th, 2014 at 12:30 pm

I think letting Saviano go isn’t necessarily being done because of something he did wrong. She’s been with him a long time and the ideas can get a little stale. Some fresh eyes can often be helpful when trying to move to the next level. Coaching changes have helped Sampras, Agassi, Murray and even Federer. Genie has some limits to her game and a new coach may be able to help with those limits. I know these are unlikely candidates but I’d like to see her choose Martina Navratilova or Monica Seles as a coach.

November 25th, 2014 at 12:36 pm

Interesting that the two most improved players of 2014 – Bouchard and Halep – have split with the coaches who helped them with their breakthroughs this year.

November 25th, 2014 at 1:11 pm

RZ, I think this is rather the norm: players grow up with a coach, and when they become professional mainstays, for a number of possible reasons, there is a break-up and the player moves on to a new coach. Probably some have already down this by the time they are competing in the Jr ranks, so when they turn pro they already have been with a “pro” coach.
I think Novak would be the exception, sticking with his long time coach.

November 25th, 2014 at 2:16 pm

@TV – it does seem to be the norm these days. You mention Novak as an exception; I would add Rafa too.

November 25th, 2014 at 7:07 pm

Vajda is Nole’s fourth coach, he started with Nole when Nole was 19 years of age and already on pro tour. It was Jelena Gencic, Niki Pilic, Riccardo Piatti and then Vajda and then Boris.

November 25th, 2014 at 8:12 pm

^ i noticed you skipped todd martin (probably because of the traumatic memory of seeing nole practicing serves … on his knees! no wonder he was the double fault king in 2010!!)

November 25th, 2014 at 8:51 pm

jane, actually I forgot about him alltogether, selective memory, no? :)

When we are talking about Todd Martin I don’t think it is fair to blame him solely for Nole stagnation, in those years Nole was distracted by quite a few things and had a big burden on his back ti carry, it was to much of everything for the young man who was just trying to play tennis, besides, Todd looked like a really nice bloke.

November 25th, 2014 at 9:05 pm

^^too much

November 25th, 2014 at 9:06 pm

yes, i liked todd martin as a player, and i definitely think he meant well – lovely guy. i think nole has also changed his racquet around then which caused some problems.

i think he worked briefly with todd woodbridge too, to help the volleys, but i think we’ve seen the biggest improvement in those since boom-boom because his coach; would you agree?

November 25th, 2014 at 9:20 pm

too many “thinks” ha ha.

November 25th, 2014 at 9:21 pm

todd woodbridge, yes, I forgot him too…looks like I am socializing too much with that Alzheimer dude, lately.

November 25th, 2014 at 9:24 pm

ha ha ha, lol wog boy.

November 25th, 2014 at 9:31 pm

she should hire chris evert….she’s a huge fan of genie. that would be a great combo.

November 26th, 2014 at 12:46 pm

I thought Nole worked Mark Woodforde, not Todd.

November 28th, 2014 at 6:23 pm

^^^ Blame jane..:)

November 28th, 2014 at 8:04 pm

I don’t know where to put this, this looks like the most neutral thread, Wimbledon final has been declared by ATP as the best GS match of the year, second best is Wawrinka/Djokovic AO.

November 28th, 2014 at 8:19 pm

The best match of the year- by a clear distance- was Wawrinka v Djokovic at AO.

A match in which throughout it all you saw 2 evenly stacked opponents going toe to toe with one not knowing who would win until the distant end.

For me- a neutral- the wimbledon final is grossly overrated. Sorry.

Novak could have- and should have- won that match in straight sets. No question about it.

Fed was at the mercy of his racquet and the real reason why that matched extended as long as it did was quite simply:

Novak struggling with his nerve.

Call it mental frailty, choking, whatever but it was blatant that Novak’s biggest opponent in that match was his mental demons as when he was dialed in the superior player was quite apparent.

Unlike Novak’s reaction post AO 12′ final or Rafa post Wimby 08′, rather than pure elation at the win his reaction summed it up best for me:

Pure relief that he did not let that match slip away.

He did well to win in the end since he had to face his mental demons in that one more than an opponent who was playing superior tennis.

Should have wrapped it in 3, certainly 4.

My 2 cents on that one.

Wawa v Nole will live long in the memory though since it was a genuine classic.

November 28th, 2014 at 8:34 pm

tmd, you’re probably right. i just know he worked with one of them on his net game quite a few years back.

November 28th, 2014 at 10:52 pm