Gilles Simon Has Joined Daniil Medvedev’s Coaching Team

Daniil Medvedev has added former World No.6 and 14-time ATP titlist Gilles Simon to his teaching staff. In information first reported by Tennis Majors, Medvedev’s present coach Gilles Cervara says that Simon’s position has no particular title, however shall be vital.

“Gilles Simon’s title doesn’t matter,” Cervara told Tennis Majors. “What is going to rely is the standard of our work, the concord of our contributions, and the outcomes. That’s what’s necessary.”

Medvedev and Simon shall be collectively subsequent week in Dubai and have tentative plans for Simon to take a number of the journey burden off Cervara’s shoulders this spring, particularly at Madrid and this 12 months’s Paris Masters.

“He’s an addition to the staff,” Medvedev informed Tennis Majors. “He’s going to assist us transfer ahead, assist us win titles, and assist me turn into a greater participant.”

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Medvedev stresses that Cervara, who has labored with Medvedev since 2017, will nonetheless be the primary man in his staff.

“We [will] see the way it goes. To this point it has been going good. Hopefully it’s for a really very long time however that relies on a variety of elements. We’ll see how a lot time he spends. For positive Gilles Cervara shall be extra time with me than Gilles Simon. That’s the way it works as a result of that’s the way it was. We’ll see what the longer term brings as to what number of weeks he shall be with us.”

Most necessary, Medvedev seems ahead to having the Frenchman in his ear relating to making refined enhancements to his recreation on totally different surfaces and as an attacking participant.

Throughout his profession Simon’s repute as an mental, tactically tuned in participant has by no means been in query. He has all the time been seen as an clever tactician and a participant who has carried out “extra with much less.”

“My expectations are that Gilles Simon is a really sensible participant that may assist me enhance my recreation – particularly hoping to enhance elements of my recreation which might be perhaps not one of the best. To this point it’s been going good.”