- Cahill plans his retirement in 2025
- Sinner is the fourth player to number 1
- He praised Sinner for his resistance during the doping scandal
Jannik Sinner win a second crown from the Australian Open would be an appropriate end at home to Darren Cahill, but the super coach is determined not to reach the final for him.
The Italian announced through the Open that Cahill, from southern Australia, planned to retire at the end of 2025 with an unmatched success rate with Sinner, the fourth player he has guided to become the number one in the world.
Sinner joined Slyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi and Simona Halep as Grand Slam winners whom Cahill, the former semifinalist of the 59 -year -old US Open, has led to the top of the game.
Cahill, who will join as a co-person in 2022 with the Italian Simone Vagnozzi, took the 23-year-old player to the crowns of the Australian Open and the United States Open last year, while he will be the initial favorite for a third Major In the decisive game of Sunday in Melbourne Park against German Alexander Zverev. .
By revealing the removal plans of his coach, Sinner said it was a “great honor” to be the last player that Cahill supervised full time and expected to “make a good season.”
But Cahill did not want to take prominence to his Italian world champion.
“Honestly, I don't want to do this in any way about me,” Cahill said after his semifinal victory over the American Ben Shelton.
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“We are concentrated that Jannik reaches the final, playing against Zverev.
'This is not about me. It's about Jannik.
Thanks to his connections as a coach, Cahill has been able to choose AGASSI's tennis brain, who won four titles from the Australian Open among his eight Grand Slam titles, and follow Sinner closely.
“We talk to Andre today; he is a great admirer of Jannik and loves his way of playing,” Cahill said.
“I always listen to his words about what he sees in Jannik's game and where the improvements come from and where he still feels that there could be more improvements in the Jannik game.”
Cahill said he could see many improvements in Jannik's game as he matured physically, growing five centimeters in the last two years.
He could also see a growth in his resilience, particularly in the way he handled the ongoing doping saga, with the mist last year.
But he admitted that the ongoing saga had affected the star player before the Australian Open final.
“It is not easy to return and defend a major for the first time in your career and he has had some things to deal with,” Cahill said.
“We could not be more proud of the way it has behaved, both on and off the court, the struggle that has demonstrated, resistance.
“No one is bulletproof.
“That's where you can go and do your own and feel that this is what you know, this is what you understand, what is good.”
'He has become a home for him where he can enter the court and play tennis.
“There has been a lot of pressure around him during the last nine months, but he drives it as well as anyone who has seen dealing with pressure.”
“He is an incredible young man who has been able to put that aside.
'Whatever it will be. We don't know what will happen, but he can always keep his head up and be proud of what he has been able to achieve. ”