O razlazu sa Sumikom, spornom tvitu... deo
She was surprised when Sumyk informed her of his decision to terminate the partnership the day after her fourth-round loss to Dominika Cibulkova.
“I never will forget what we achieved together and always will be grateful, but yeah, it was a bit surprising for me,” Azarenka said in a telephone interview Tuesday from Doha, Qatar. “To me, it’s just sad. There’s no other emotion. There’s no anger. There’s no anything else but just sadness, because it’s like a breakup in a way.”
The week after the Australian Open ended, Sumyk was already coaching Eugenie Bouchard, the 20-year-old Canadian. Sumyk said his decision to leave Azarenka, who is Belarussian, for Bouchard was not driven by money.
“No, my deal with Vika was very good,” he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles on Tuesday. “I would like to tell you, ‘O.K., I don’t like money.’ No. Like everybody, I’ve got to pay my taxes, but pleasure is my No. 1 priority.”
Sumyk said the offer from Bouchard came after he had decided to split with Azarenka — a split he said was motivated, in part, by the desire to keep progressing. Sumyk said he had also told Azarenka she could benefit from hearing a fresh voice. “I’m not going to go into why I said that,” he said. “That’s between us, but that’s what I told her.”
Sumyk said that when he returned to Los Angeles from Australia, he received, to his surprise, three coaching offers in two days.
Azarenka, now at No. 50 after playing sparingly in 2014, confirmed that she was training in Doha with Wim Fissette
Sumikova zena Meilen Tu je i dalje Vikin agent
victoria azarenka @vika7 · Feb 17
Welcome to the team Wim! @wimfissette
victoria azarenka @vika7 · 10h 10 hours ago
Have you ever wondered what hurts the most: saying something and wish you had not,or saying nothing,and wishing you had?