The Spaniard will do without one of the coaches of his sporting life for the 2023 season
Rafael Nadal and Francis Roig have broken off their professional relationship after 18 seasons together. The Balearic tennis player, who has worked with Roig since childhood, announced this Friday the departure of the Catalan coach from his technical team to continue as Carlos Moyá and Marc López as head coaches.
“I wanted to let you know that Francis Roig is leaving the team. Francis has been an important person in my career and I am very grateful to him for all these years of work and friendship. When we started working together I was a kid and together with my uncle Toni we started on the track,” Nadal said on his social media.
«Francis is a great coach who knows tennis very well and helped me a lot to get better and better. I have only words of gratitude and I wish him all the luck in the world in his new project,” the Spaniard added, suggesting that the 54-year-old coach, with whom he has won 22 Grand Slam titles, should continue his career will continue career as a coach. .
Nadal announced the news as soon as training resumes in Manacor for next season, which will begin for him with the United Cup, a team tournament in which he leads Spain, from December 29 to September 9. January in Australia.
This change in the team, traditionally made up of people very close to Nadal, is the biggest since Marc López’s arrival at the end of 2021.
“It has been a real pleasure and honor for me to work with Rafa and the rest of the team,” Roig said in a statement.
“We never thought we would get so many results and have such a long career with him, but Rafa is a phenomenon and he makes everything look easy. I made this decision after much thought and I understand it’s time to start a new project with more than one player and that allows me to form my working group for years to come I have only words of thanks to Rafa and my teammates for all these years together, learning, work and make Rafa what he is, a sporting legend, the friendship will remain and we will see and enjoy each other, as we always have, on the track.
Source: La Verdad
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