Sinner's break with Piatti: That's really behind it

Speculation as to who will succeed the 20-year-old from Sesto as head coach was rampant over the weekend. A decision on the new coach could be announced as early as today. And everything points to it being the Swede Magnus Norman.

Like a bolt from the blue, 3 days ago the news came to light that Sinner and Piatti were apparently ending their successful collaboration after almost 8 years. One can only speculate about the reasons. But Sinner probably no longer agreed with his previous teacher's programming, immediate goals and tournament planning.

Magnus Norman is to become the new Sinner trainer. © GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / MATTHEW STOCKMAN

The crisis came to a head last Tuesday at a meeting between Sinner and the team. The 20-year-old tested positive for Corona after the Australian Open, then canceled the indoor tournament in Rotterdam and on Thursday also canceled this week's ATP tournament in Marseille. None of Sinner's team is there anymore Sinner has a rest at the weekend Dolomites -Information trained in his adopted home in Monte Carlo. But with none of his previous team. Conditioning coach Dalibor Sirola and physiotherapist Claudio Zimaglia were also no longer there. He trained with coach Simone Vagnozzi, who is a good friend of Sinner advisor Alex Vittur.

Vagnozzi and Vittur trained together with Andreas Seppi in Kaltern under head coach Massimo Sartori for many years from the 1990s. Vagnozzi, now 38 years old, made a name for himself as a coach after his professional career (at least number 2011 in the world in 161) and completely surprisingly led Marco Cecchinato to the semi-finals of the French Open in 2018 and to number 16 in the world rankings. He then coached Stefano Travaglia, who he brought into the top 100. Who is Magnus Norman? It's not official yet, but everything indicates that Magnus Norman from Sweden will be Jannik Sinner's new coach. Born on May 30, 1976, Norman reached No. 2 in the world rankings as a player and reached the final of the French Open in 2000, which he lost to Gustavo Kuerten. He looked after his compatriot Robin Söderling when he reached the final in Paris in 2009. Magnus Norman celebrated his greatest successes as a coach with the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, whom he has looked after since 2013 and who won 3 Grand Slam tournaments under his leadership in the heyday of the “Fab Four”. Wawrinka and Sinner are under contract with the same agency (StarWing Sports). Vagnozzi is currently preparing Sinner for next week's ATP tournament in Dubai, where the tenth in the world rankings is registered and wants to celebrate his return to the tour. It is quite possible that Vagnozzi will form Sinner's coaching team together with Norman in the future. Successful era before the end As a 13-year-old, Jannik Sinner came to Bordighera in Liguria for the first time in the summer of 2014 through the mediation of Seppi coach Massimo Sartori and his current advisor Alex Vittur. “What do we have to do to adopt this talent?” said Piatti, now 63, when he saw Sinner for the first time. The experienced coach led Sinner to the top of the world in a very short time. Three years ago today, the man from Sexten was still outside the top 3, and he is currently the youngest player in the top ten.

During Sinner's second-round victory at the Australian Open against Taro Daniel, there was a dispute between Sinner and Piatti during a change of sides. In the press conference after the match, Sinner spoke of a fourth person in his coaching team, but did not mention a name.

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Sinner's break with Piatti: That's really behind it

The news of the impending separation between Jannik Sinner and his coach and mentor Riccardo Piatti not only caused an uproar in the Italian tennis world on Friday. The successor as Sinner coach seems to have already been found.

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