Former world tennis tennis player Naomi Osaka has split from her coach Jermaine Jenkins in only six months. "I feel it's the right time to change," the 21-year-old wrote a few days after her premature retirement at the US Open, where she won her first Grand Slam title last year.
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- Naomi Osaka 大 坂 な お み (@Naomi_Osaka_) 12 September 2019Only at the beginning of the year had the Japanese after her second Grand Slam triumph at the Australian Open ended their cooperation with the German coach Sascha Bajin. With Jenkins, the current number four of the world since February had worked together. About the reasons for the separation she made on Twitter no information. She wrote that she was "very grateful for the time together". Jenkins was formerly a training partner ("Hitting Partner") of Venus Williams.
Most recently, Osaka retired at the US Open as defending champion in the second round. At Wimbledon, she already lost her opening match, at the French Open she did not come out on the 3rd Round.
Previously, Wimbledon's winner Simona Halep announced that she would again be assisted by Australian Darren Cahill in the coming season. Cahill had led the 27-year-old during the first cooperation of the two in the world top, but retired in the previous autumn, but for family reasons. Halep is currently sixth in the world rankings.