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Montreal – A Famliar and accomplished view of the rather exclusive carousel of WTA coaches walked to court 11 in Montreal on Tuesday, shortly before 11 am
For a long time Iga Swiatek coach Tomasz Witkorowski arrived in the city on Monday evening. And on Tuesday morning he observed during his first training with four -time big champion Naomi Osaka.
Yes, Naomi Osaka.
Allegedly it is a process; The news came out on a Polish website yesterdayWhich indicates that Witkorowski would usually observe this week, a bit of a “get-to-to-to-to-you” assignment in the middle of the season.
This is how they looked, in these exclusive first images.
In particular, there was no word spoken between the two to … exactly 11:16 am if you keep track of!
In the end they affected an interaction. He spoke with her about her serve, especially. And also a bit about her return position. But really, it was an introductory session.
Osaka arrived in Washington. DC last week without coach Patrick Mouratoglou, with whom she had worked for almost a year.
It is not surprising for major players not to have their full -time coaches there for smaller events for a major. But the Mubadala Citi DC Open is not really a “small event”.
She had a battle partner there, and also the man who called someone much witty than we mentioned, the “Arthur Fils Wannabe”.
Osaka lost to Emma Raducan in the second round.
She defeated inexperienced Ariana Arseneault qualifying match in the first round in Montreal Monday, and plays hard-hitting no. 13 seed liudmila samsonova in the second round.
Osaka split with Wim Fissette (who now works with Iga Swiatek) after last year’s US Open – only a few months after he said he was “probably the best coach he has ever had”.
She exchanged him for Patrick Mouratoglou.
Open Court caught up with Witkorowski, who is 44, after that first training on Tuesday.
He just arrived last night and did not want to do an interview until he had at least touched the basis with the Osaka team to see what their guidelines are about.
But he said that he had had a good break with the family at home and was ready for a new challenge.
This is intriguing, from a purely logistics position. Partly because of the language problem.
When Swiatek made the change in Wim Fissette last fall, she said she was ready to go with a non-Polish coach for the first time to take the next step in her career.
Fissette of course has a long list of former top players with whom he has worked together. But it was the first time that Swiatek actually learned instruction in English and absorbed. Which she speaks pretty well. But that’s not the same as doctrine In that language. Not even nearby.
We have mentioned this to a few people about this relationship with people the idea that it was a challenge.
But as everyone has seen, it took some time.
Fissette confirmed the same amount to Radio Wimbledon a few weeks ago.
“She has always had a full Polish team, coached in specific ways or words, and sometimes in English words the same can mean, but feel different. Week after week I found the right approach, the right words, spent a lot of time talking to her team. I am happy that we had these months and I feel that I am the best coach for her,” he said.
Witkorowski did not reject that as a factor that would require some adjustment to, because he worked with Swiateek and for seven years of Agnieszka Radwanska.
(It is the same dynamics – it is one thing for a coach to speak English very well. It is another to teach in that language).
But he also pointed out that he had worked with Olga Danilovic, who is Serbish. And that they communicated in English. So at least he has some experience with that. And he expects it to be even easier with Osaka, because English is her first language.
Osak and Switch
While Fissette went from Osaka to Swiatek, Witkorowski will make the exact opposite trip.
Assuming that the two can get along and that it seems to have the opportunity to gel well.
Witkorowski could probably talk to Fissette during a great dinner in Montreal about how the two players are so different, and what differences in coaching strategies that it would cost.
In the meantime, just like Osaka and Witkorowski walked from their practice court, do you look at who was warming up next door?
Players can be strange about things like this. They can throw away a coach. But they don’t want another player to have him because they become paranoid, he will spill all the secrets about how they can beat them.
On the other hand, sometimes there seem to be only five coaches in all WTA and they just play musical seats with them.
By the way, Swiatek and Osaka don’t hang around exactly. It will probably be fine.
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