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Maria Sharapovas
Stella ArtoisMaria Sharapova has some advice for Coco Gauffwho recently fired the tennis coach Brad Gilbert.
“I think Coco has a great head on her shoulders and knows that there will be changes in her team over the years,” the 37-year-old Sharapova said exclusively We weekly during the Stella Artois “Let’s do Dinner Summer Series” event in New York City on Thursday, September 19.
“What you need at one point in your career is not what you need later in your career,” the retired tennis player continued. “I was very lucky with the teams I had. I still stay very close to all my coaches. They are such great team members and they carry so much weight. A team is very important.”
Sharapova added: “It takes time to build trust and learn from it [your team] and accept their advice. But it’s a fun journey.”
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Gilbert, 63, announced on Wednesday, September 18 via I wish you nothing but continued success,” Gilbert wrote. “I look forward to the next chapter in my coaching career.”
Coco Gauff
JP Yim/Getty Images for American EagleGilbert previously coached players like Andre Agassi, Andy Murray And Andy Roddickand began working with Gauff as a co-coach in July 2023 Pere Riba. Under his guidance, Gauff became the No. 2 player of all time last summer. She won her first Grand Slam title in September 2023 and won three more titles that summer in Washington DC, Cincinnati and at the US Open.
However, during the 2024 season, the young tennis star suffered setbacks after losing to his compatriot Emma Navarro in the last two Grand Slams and then failed to medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Saying goodbye to a coach is something Sharapova knows all too well. In 2008, after winning her third Grand Slam in Australia, the Russian tennis star asked her coach and father: Yuri Sharapovto step back from the role he had held for virtually her entire career.
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“At that time I had just won my third Grand Slam,” she said Us. “Maybe in a different situation or [for] another player, that wouldn’t be the time to quit your coach or your father, but I just wanted to fly on my own. I wanted to figure things out. I was in my early twenties and just felt ready, even though he still remained a big part of my career.
Despite firing her father, Sharapova complied Us that she and Yuri remain “very close.”
“I am an only child and I have a very good relationship with both my parents,” she said. “They’ve just been great influences in my life. We have shared so much through my sport and my upbringing together. We came to a new country at a young age, so we were a small team. I am grateful that I had them by my side.”
Sharapova retired from tennis in February 2020.