Former top-10 player and 2012 Roland Garros finalist Sara Errani will practice for three weeks with Belgian Wim Fissette in Tirrenia, Italy after splitting with her longtime coach Pablo Lozano.
Errani wrote a letter on her official website to thank Lozano for all the work during a successful 12-year-old partnership.
“I am here to announce that my longtime collaboration with Pablo Lozano and David Andres in Valencia has just come to an end. It’s been 12 unforgettable years, and is very hard to describe with mere word show we lived them to be fullest, or the countless emotions we shared day after day. When I first arrived in Valencia, I was just a girl with a dream, eager to do whatever it took to make it come true. But truth is that I didn’t really know what to expect from myself at that time, what my potential could ever achieve. Twelve years later, I got more thousand of kilometres and many achievements under my belt that I ever thought I could really reach.. I went beyond my limits and Pablo’s always been a costant about it. I could never imagine how much he would be a major key for me back then.We have been through it all. I am not just considering tennis matters. I am talking about everything that goes down away from the limelight, what happens in the backstage. The practices, the countless flights, the board games, the lunches and the dinners we had together, the chats, the arguments, the hugs, the cries, all the times we opened up and trusted each other. I have seen him growing with me, becoming a better person and a greater coach again and again. I have seen him getting married, the birth of his children, seen them growing as well, and he has allowed me to witness all this and to be a part of it like a bigger sister, with love and joy. Our lives crossed and became one for 12 years. I want to give my special thanks to Pablo for being the cornerstone of my life, for providing me with everything that I needed and for making me who I am today ”, wrote Errani on her official website.
Fissette trained great tennis players like Kim Clijsters in 2009 and 2010 guiding her compatriot to two Grand Slam titles at the US Open and at the Australian Open and a triumph at the WTA Finals. The Belgian coach also worked with former Viktoria Azarenka and Simona Halep, who reached the 2014 Roland Garros final, the semifinal at Wimbledon and a career-high at number 2. He also coached Sabine Lisicki in 2013, when the German player reached the final at Wimbledon.
After the three-week practise, Errani will decide whether to continue working with Fissette.
“I aim to take advantage of the Belgium’s reknown experience and technical expertise, which made Fissette one of the best coaches around, in order to share a different point of view, analyse and improve every aspect of the game”, said Errani on her official website.
