Andy Murray says in Rome that that he’s currently satisfied with working with adidas player development coach Darren Cahill while he looks for a private coach. Another adidas player, Ana Ivanovic, has stopped her pursuit of a private coach as she’s also satisfied with her work with Cahill.
"One of the good things about him is that he has been around on tour for a long time and has also coached many people and so it wasn’t as if he came in and didn’t know quite how to go about it," said Murray, who parted way with Alex Corretja in March. "He didn’t say too much at the beginning and I am sure that when he gets to know me better then it’ll be much easier. So far it’s been nice and I like him as a person and I think he’s a very good coach, so I am very happy."
Ivanovic’s management has said that Cahill is working closely with Ivanovic’s full-time hitting partner Olivier Morel, who travels with her full-time. Cahill is the former coach of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt and also works as an analyst for ESPN. Ivanovic is not working with the other members of the adidas coaching team, which includes Sven Groenfeld and Mats Merkel. She used to work closely with Groenfeld, but he is working a lot with No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Outside of the adidas coaches, Ivanovic has worked with five private coaches since 2006: Zoltan Kuharsky, David Taylor, Craig Kardon, Heinz Gunthardt and Antonio van Grichen, whom she parted ways with right after the Australian Open. "Hard work is part of it, and I understand this, so I don't need someone to push me in that way," Ivanovic told the Independent. "I just need someone to understand me as a person and understand what I need, someone who's going to be a little bit relaxed, because I'm such an intense person."—Matthew Cronin