Murray's new coach

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

RE: Murray's new coach

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I think Larry Stefanki would be a pretty good choice, though I think Andy needs someone with him more than 10 weeks per year. Stefanki has the right pedigree, having had great success with Kafelnikov, Rios and McEnroe. Some people have talked about McEnroe as a coach, but this would never work, McEnroe has no track record as a coach and he is way too busy anyway.

I did a quick google and found a longish but out of date article on Larry Stefanki: http://www.departures.com/tr/tr_0901_tenniscoach.html

Bob Brett, Darren Cahill and Brad Gilbert would all be excellent choise if they are willing. Maybe one of the Spannish coaches would be a good choice, though I am not really familiar with any of them...

Anyway, I am sure we'll see soon enough.

Drew · May 14, 2006

Whoever it is going to be he must be in place after or during Hamburg !!!!!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I agree with Kundalini, hopefully not Stefanki. He ruined Tim's game.

Andy and Tim get on well and talk together a lot, so perhaps Tim will have given his advice on that one. If, of course, he realises that Stefanki ruined his serve.

geo1 · Intermediate Club Player

Madeline wrote:

I agree with Kundalini, hopefully not Stefanki. He ruined Tim's game. Andy and Tim get on well and talk together a lot, so perhaps Tim will have given his advice on that one. If, of course, he realises that Stefanki ruined his serve.

Agree 100% with you there Maddy, it became obvious that that is what happend first time he played after taking on Stefanki it was that quick, Tim had a good serve till then , not fast but the accuracy and placement was more than good enough , lets hope Andy stays well clear.

Cheers

Geo.

RJA · Hall of fame

I must add to the chorus of anti Stefanki comments. The guy wrecked Tim's game and Andy needs a coach for far more than 10 weeks a year.

Sheddie · administrator

Agree with RJA, 10 weeks is a very short time in the tennis year. At the moment Andy needs a coach who's prepared to travel with him all year round so that the coach can highlights areas which they need to work on and also plan tactics for his opponents.

Stefanki is definately not the man for the job, he'll probably make Andy's serving problems even worse. The standard of returning in the men's game is such that players need to have a really aggressive first serve with plenty of bite on it. After Stefanki altered Henman's serving, players were able to let rip at it on the return at will.

stagger · Club Coach

Looks like stefanki is out of the equation, R5 report that he is very close to signing a deal with fernando gonzalez. Fine by me.

Sheddie · administrator

Fernando Gonzalez ???

He's a player on the tour !!!

I think you mean another Gonzalez, maybe Pancho ?

stagger · Club Coach

no, i mean stefanki is close to signing with gonzalez.

Josh · Challenger level

Yeah, Andy just confimed that during live interview on Sky. His words "unfortunately looks like Stepanki is going to work woth Gonzales, he got in before me. The search goes on".

He said there were three or four on the list (Stepanki being one of them) although Andy has yet to speak personally to any of them

Sheddie · administrator

Oh, I see.

thank goodness for that !!!

Did they mention who Andy might be looking at next ?

Josh · Challenger level

No, didn't mention any other names. Other than imbecile Chris Bailey offering his services to which Andy looked suitably unimpressed!

Sheddie · administrator

Josh wrote:

No, didn't mention any other names. Other than imbecile Chris Bailey offering his services to which Andy looked suitably unimpressed!

Drew · May 16, 2006

Thank goodness Stefanki is busy elsewhere !!!!!!!!!!!!