[新聞] Angel Gimenez對韓娃的評價及2008的展望
Daniela Hantuchova's coach Angel Gimenez discusses the Slovakian's excellent
end to the season and high hopes for 2008.
Eurosport - Mon, 12 Nov 15:13:00 2007
Gimenez, a former coach of Gabriela Sabatini, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario,
Svetlana Kuznetsova and Alberto Costa, has been coaching Hantuchova for two
years now and has spoken of the improvements the 24-year-old has made and
what she is capable of in future seasons.
Q: What has changed in Daniela's game since you started coaching her?
Gimenez: She has made a big step forward which is clear to see based on her
results. Nowadays she can equally fight with the world's top players. The
most important thing about Daniela is that she has a big talent. In the past
she was using mainly her instinct. We have tried to bring a system into her
play and combine it with her natural advantages. In tennis there must be a
co-operation of many aspect of play to make it work well. When everything is
working well together, only then it will become clear how high a tennis
player can reach. With Daniela we are still on the way.
Q: Which period have you reached?
Gimenez: The good thing is that Daniela can still get better and better. Our
main effort will be for Daniela to show consistent performances all year
long.
Q: How do you want to reach that goal?
Gimenez: It can be reached only by hard training daily. It is important that
she understands the things we do. I don't think she would be looking for a
different style of play, she just needs to show stable performances. She is a
big professional and she is not bothered to spend five or six hours on the
court. We have been doing everything to get her as high as possible.
Q: What is her biggest weakness?
Gimenez: She has very good strokes. She has very skilful hands, she can do
wonders with the ball. Sometimes though she has problems to catch the game
rhythm. Either she has a slow start to a game and gets into the right shape
when the game is almost over, or vice versa. She must learn to be fully
concentrated all match long no matter who is playing against her, no matter
what the scoreboard says or the conditions are.
Q: Compared to other players, she looks a little bit slower in movement.
Gimenez: She is faster than it seems on the court. I see at trainings how
able she is. She has a good movement potential.
Q: Isn't it a pity that Hantuchova has joined the Sanchez-Casal Academy
(where Gimenez coaches) only two years ago?
Gimenez: That's life. People are searching for something, they even don't
know for what, all their lives and suddenly when they find what they had
searched for, they know it is the right thing for them. I don't think it is
too late for Daniela, why she is only 24. It is important that she wants to
get better.
Q: Do you discuss other topics than just tennis with her?
Gimenez: Daniela is a very intelligent young lady. She has a good sense of
what is happening all around the world, she has a good sense of humour as
well. We often chat about events that are happening in the world.
Q: Her career-high was when she was 5th in the WTA rankings. Can she go
higher?
Gimenez: Why not? She has proved this year that she has the potential to do
so. Everybody has a time when he or she realizes things and grows up. Daniela
has already reached this.
Q: What is the target for next season?
Gimenez: I don't want to speak about numbers or where she will be in the
rankings. I still focus only on what is necessary to improve. If we manage to
make her performances stable, then she will win more matches, which also
means that she will have more points and will be higher in the rankings.
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