Former world number 7 Fernando Verdasco has appointed Joaquin Quino Munoz Hernandez as his new coach for his 19th professional season. Madrid-native Quino Munoz. He played the last tournament of his career in April 2017 and retired at the age of 43 to start his new coaching career.
Munoz reached his best ranking of world number 157 and never played in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. He reached his best result, when he qualified for the third round in Barcelona in 1998. He won three ATP matches and reached two Challenger finals in Budapest in 1997 and 2002.
Verdasco broke into the top 100 in March 2004 and won seven ATP titles from 23 finals. The 35-year-old Spaniard is the third oldest player in the top 100 behind Roger Federer and Feliciano Lopez. He won 33 matches and ended the year inside the top 30 at world number 28 improving his career-high by positions compared to 2017.
He reached the Rio de Janeiro final losing to Diego Schwartzman and lost in three semifinals to Fabio Fognini at Bastad, to Yoshihito Nishioka in Shenzhen and to Kevin Anderson in Vienna and won his 500th career win in Madrid. He is seeking his first title since Bucharest in 2016. In Rio de Janiero Verdasco clinched his first doubles title since 2013 ATP Finals in London At Masters 1000 level he beat 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov to reach the third round at Indian Wells and got through to the fourth round at Miami. He saved three match points against Pablo Cuevas in Monte-Carlo. He beat the thir round at Roland Garros and made his 62nd appearance at Grand Slam level at the US Open where he lost to Juan Martin Del Potro in the third round. He wasted six match points against Phillip Kohlschreiber in the second round in Stockolm.
He will start the 2019 season in Doha where he lost in the semifinal to eventual champion Novak Djokovic after wasting five match points.
Diego Dinomo, who previously with Andrea Hlavackova and Guillermo Garcia Lopez and physio Chema Castillo will be in Verdasco’s team in 2009.
