Venus Williams won't retire from tennis, says former coach
The working relationship between Venus Williams and David Witt has ended. As reported by the CNN journalist Ravi Ubha, the 38-year-old American tennis player stopped working with Witt after spending 11 years together. Witt, a former world No. 128 ATP player who won two Challenger titles, said that it was a great run, and he now plans to stay on the Tour as a coach.
Williams did not have a great 2017 season and she dropped to the 38th place of the WTA Rankings. Witt started working with the Williams Sisters, Serena and Venus, back in 2002 and then continued the work with the five-time Grand Slam champion.
Venus is yet to announce her new coach. She will start the new season at the ASB Classic in Auckland.
In an interview to the New York Times, Witt said: 'When it happened, both of us were emotional about it,” he said. 'After, you sit there and go: ‘Man, after 11 years, it’s over after a two-minute phone call. Wow. After 11 years.’ Part of you sits there and says that, and the other part says that it was a business decision, which I totally understand, and I respect her decision. I don’t even need to know why; it’s just her decision. It is what it is, and we had a great run, and nothing lasts forever.'
On Venus's future, Witt added: 'As far as I’m concerned, and from what she told me, she’s not retiring. What I’m guessing, with how old she is — obviously she’s not getting any younger or any faster or any of that — maybe she’s planning on playing a limited schedule.'
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from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2ERHSo5
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