While ATP-Masters-winner Alexander Zverev is now in holiday, starts for Angelique Kerber, the preparation for the new Tennis season. In Cologne, the Athlete what is expected of 2019 and the new Coach explained.
The Wimbledon champion hesitates a little. But then she responds: “I got it earlier, Yes, hated,” says Angelique Kerber after returning from the Maldives. Since you made a holiday and not what you hated before: Fitness, strength training, endurance training. All the things Angelique Kerber – in addition to Talent and game experience – to be made at the end of a Tennis Champion. Now it’s happening again, starting next week, first in the domestic Puszczykowo (Poland).
“The same language”
A week later, Rainer Schüttler (42) will join the Team. The Ex-Pro is the new coach, the Wimbledon champion, had separated a few weeks ago, surprisingly, from your highly respected international Coach, Wim Fissette. Even at a Sponsors event in Köln Kerber wanted to say anything to the reasons for the separation. One may assume, however, that the personnel castling had to be made in the “Team AK” in the short term. After Singapore, the WTA finals in October, have you set for yourself with your Familiar together, and the question is asked: “Who is right for me?” They have also other names, a crucial point was that “we speak the same language, which was very important to me”.
If Kerber starts at the beginning of February in Perth and Melbourne in the season, it will be soon 31 years old. She has won Wimbledon in the year 2016, the Australian Open and the US Open. And meanwhile, you have also learned to say “no” to things that do not reject the fit in the stuff. Says shaker, who is on the women’s tour the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Newcomer, you: “We’ll see, we’ll start with that and then we’ll see if it fits together.” The new Coach is not in the journalists-date in Cologne, by the way.
Rainer Schüttler, new Kerber-Coach
Fed Cup is still questionable
Along with the freshly anointed ATP Masters winner Alexander Zverev Kerber of 29. December to compete in the Mixed competition Hopman Cup in Perth, “to win”. Otherwise, she would Slam on the Grand tournaments and the big Events, focus and back, two smaller competitions skip, such as Angelique Kerber, told Deutsche Welle. To avoid injuries, and the mental powers to divide, is the Background of this strategy. So haven’t decided whether she’ll compete at the beginning of February 2019 in the first Fed Cup round for Germany. The DTB Team meets on 9./10. February 2019 in Braunschweig, Germany, and white Russia. In any case, you’ll be at the French Open in Paris, although you can, of course, to draw ash places less and in Roland-Garros also in the first-round exit. No matter, attack again, that is the goal for Angelique Kerber 2019.
While she stands there, in front of the wall with the Logo of your insurance sponsor, and with the reporters speaks, listens in the audience to the attention of Dr. Alyosha throne. Kerbers Manager has brought to you this week with the Chancellor, the appointment in Cologne, it goes to a Meeting with those luxury watch brand, the power of love with Wimbledon winners and winners advertising. One more question: A woman in your Team, a coach on the professional Tour, as this was once Andy Murray is eighth in front of, it would not have been even conceivable? “For me, it was not important whether it is a woman or a man, but that he speaks my language,” stressed Kerber. And: “of course There are not so many coaches on the Tour.”
Since no one say, that the venerable Tennis-Sport to be a very traditional affair. Small consolation in terms of gender justice: Rainer Schüttler will experience that the boss in the Team and on the court – is a woman. The means Angelique Kerber and know what you can and want to: “The tennis nobody needs to play me more to teach, I’m a few years on the Tour, I know how to play the game. It all starts with me.”