Head Coach Pere Riba Departs from Coco Gauff’s Team, Leaving Tennis Pro in Search of New Success

Coco Gauff’s resounding victory against Ons Jabeur in her debut at the WTA Finals also left us with another piece of news that fully affects the American’s environment since the Spanish Pere Riba is no longer part of her technical team as head coach.

AS contacted Pere Riba, who has not attended the WTA Finals in Cancun, to find out the reasons for this departure from the team and the coach assured that it was due to personal reasons.

A breakup that Gauff herself also spoke about after her victory against Jabeur in the WTA Finals. “Unfortunately it was not my decision, but we have to end the relationship. I have had a great time with him and I wish him the best in his next adventure. If it depended on me, I would have liked to have him here, but things happen and that’s life. We have not ended in bad ways, sometimes people want to make something that is not. Some things didn’t work out and that’s it. I still think that he is a great guy and that he has done incredible things for me and my game, and I am sure that he will be successful in his next challenge.”

Since the arrival of Pere Riba to Gauff’s bench, the American tennis player has established herself in the elite after a collaboration that began last Wimbledon after Riba helped the Chinese Qinwen Zheng to sneak into the top 20 tennis players in the world.

From there the duo formed by Gauff and Riba began to reap successes with the conquest of the title at the Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington, at the WTA 1,000 in Cincinnati, where Gauff defeated number 1 Iga Swiatek in the semifinals and, above all, everything, the victory at the US Open, where Gauff managed to come back against Aryna Sabalenka to win her first Grand Slam title and become number 3 in the WTA ranking at just 19 years old.

Now it is Gauff’s turn to continue maintaining his flight under the protection of Brad Gilbert, Andy Roddick’s former coach who already worked as an assistant on his team, after his partnership with Pere Riba turned him into one of the great references of the present and future. of women’s tennis.

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2023-10-31 12:37:55
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