Unexpected announcement: the coach who made Simona Halep big is retiring from tennis

Unexpected announcement: the coach who made Simona Halep big is retiring from tennis

Italian world number one Jannik Sinner (23) says his coach Darren Cahill, 59, will leave the team at the end of the season.

Darren Cahill

The Australian, who has been working with Jannik since the summer of 2022 along with Simone Vagnozzi, had already announced at the ATP Finals that Sinner would be his last player. But not the fact that 2025 will be the last year in the circuit.

After a 4-set win over Schoolkate in the second round of the Australian Open, Jannik announced that this would be the Australian coach’s final season in his career. “A said 2025 is his last season“, explained today the world number 1 for Eurosport.

A few days ago, during training, Sinner met Cahill’s father John (84), a former Australian footballer.

After Hewitt, Agassi and Halep, Sinner is the last player made world number 1 by the Australian super coach. When he broke up with Halep, Cahill reasoned that he wanted to spend more time with his family.

Adrian Stoica

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