The new wave of women’s tennis, Naomi Osaka sacked her coach Sascha Bajin in less than a score of days after winning her second consecutive Grand Slam title and turning World Number one. They worked with each other for little more than a year, and as everything was smoothly progressing in Naomi’s career, her decisive move to split with her coach struck the tennis followers as a bolt from the blue. The tennis legends, Chris Evert and Lindsay Davenport collectively feel that it is one of the absurdest player-coach ruptures in the history of tennis.

With the progress in time and the advancements in the media, the coach is significantly brought into the limelight. The Australian Open 2019 held separate press conferences for the coaches. This ideally caters the tennis followers with more insights for a better understanding of the sport and however, it puts the player into an insecure posture since the coach might disclose the confidential matters.

Bajin was the WTA coach of the year 2018 and his recent dismissal has given rise to assorted sceptics all over the tennis world. In tennis coaching, the player is the mentee and as well as the employer and the coach direct the game of the player. Since the player lays out the coach’s pay, reasons for their separation could perhaps owe to the fact of the financial clashes between the duo. Sometimes, the coaches take gratuitous honour for the player’s success. Also, the Japanese did not categorically mention Bajin in her victory speech at the Melbourne major.   

On top of that, both of the tennis icons are on the summit of their respective professions, their upper echelons could have repelled the thriving team from working together. However, the sport of tennis practices recycling and with the replacement and rehiring rate being directly proportional Bajin will shortly be appointed in the box of an established tennis player.

Chris Evert and Lindsay Davenport recently visited Tennis Channel. Evert shared her thoughts about the shocking split of Osaka and Bajin, she said, “she and Sascha train at my tennis academy. We love having them there. I’m sure there’s a lot of speculation about different things, but maybe we should just wait and see what they have to say about it.”  Evert feels tennis has definitely undergone changes, earlier a thriving team breaking up wasn’t a usual move in tennis and players were obedient and sincere to their coaches. Recently, the other prosperous pair of WTA, Simona Halep and Daren Cahill also called off their affluent partnership. “It seems like this generation they’re so quick to pull the trigger and move on,” Davenport said. “[There’s] very few long-lasting player-coach relationships”.

The following Slam of tennis will be fraught excitement. Osaka will be battling for her third consecutive Slam with a revamped team and Novak Djokovic will be defending his fourth consecutive major.