According to information from the We Love Tennis site that we are able to confirm, Gilles Simon will join the team of Daniil Medvedev (world No. 4) and his coach Gilles Cervara.
After Medvedev’s victory against Zverev in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, Simon expressed all his joy on his X account. “Ahaha you don’t know how happy I am. Daniil Medvedev you are a fucking genius! », Wrote the former 6th player in the world, who will be at work next week in Dubai.
A role to be defined
Currently present in the Emirates, Gilles Cervara returns this Saturday. “What will Gilles (Simon)’s title be? I do not know. Consultant, co-trainer, assistant coach… I don’t care one bit, explains the latter. What will count will be the quality of the work, the harmonization of our contributions, the good dynamic of life between everyone in the team and the results… That’s all that will be important.
For the chronology, everything started from the day after the US Open final where I wanted to do fewer weeks in certain tournaments for reasons of my own. Following private discussions, Gilles Simon’s idea came a few weeks later. He can bring us his fine vision of the game and Daniil’s opponents, new and different things that belong to his experience and his qualities, and support things that have already been done and said with Daniil for seven years. »
After a week of joint work, the coach who led the Russian to the rank of world No. 1 said this: “I only want to speak on my own behalf, so I will say that it is interesting and enriching to see the game from another look. »
