Beijing time on September 14th, the former world number one in women's tennis singles Naomi Osaka announced that she had ended her cooperative relationship with coach Fissette. Last year, Fesset unilaterally announced the termination of his contract with Zheng Qinwen .
Subsequently, the topic "The coach who betrayed Zheng Qinwen is unemployed" topped the Weibo hot search.
At the end of September last year, Zheng Qinwen revealed after winning the Asian Games that Feisette broke the contract without authorization and jumped to Naomi Osaka's team, which caused harm to her and her family. "This is his personal choice. I can understand it, but it is unethical. I don't want to mention this person now."
Belgian coach Feisette is one of the most famous coaches in WTA. He started coaching in 2009 and helped Chris Tells won two consecutive Grand Slam titles and became world number one. Later, players such as Kerber , Halep, and Naomi Osaka also won Grand Slam championships under his coaching. The cooperative relationship between Osaka and Feisette is divided into two periods. The second period started last summer, when Osaka trained for her postpartum comeback.
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After the French Open in 2023, Feisette began to cooperate with Zheng Qinwen. Frankly speaking, the cooperation between the two was quite successful. In just over three months, Zheng Qinwen won his first career championship in Palermo, and then reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time in the US Open. During that time, the two sides were very impressed with each other. They are all very complimentary.
After Fesset unilaterally tore up the cooperation agreement, Zheng Qinwen repeatedly expressed "respect but not forgiveness."
Osaka Naomi returned to the competition in Brisbane this year. Her best result so far this season is reaching the quarterfinals twice, and she is currently ranked 75th in the world. After her comeback, she also defeated six players ranked among the top 20 in the world, including defeating Ostapenko at the US Open, her first victory over a top 10 player in the world in more than four years. However, overall, Osaka's overall performance this year has been relatively mediocre.
It is worth mentioning that Zheng Qinwen and Osaka Naomi met twice this year in Rome and Berlin, and they won both times. Among them, after the Rome race, Zheng Qinwen was asked about Feisette in an interview.
She said, "If you had asked me about this a few months ago, I think I would have said it was irritating and I wanted to get rid of the frustration. But it's six or seven months before we talk about it. This thing, I want to say, this is an ordinary game, I regard Osaka as an ordinary opponent, I have more respect for her as a female player, I know how much she returns to the game after becoming a mother. It’s not easy. I pay tribute to every player who returns to the game after becoming a mother.”
(Comprehensive from Beijing Evening News, Sports Weekly, China News Service, etc.)
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