Wimbledon winner Angelique Kerber will be coached by sparring partner Andre Wiesler at the WTA season finale in Singapore after the surprising separation of coach Wim Fissette. Kerbers management confirmed this to SID. From Sunday (until 28 October), the best eight players of the tennis year will play for the title in Southeast Asia.
Only after the tournament, which is endowed with seven million dollars and in which Kerber is taking part for the fifth time, will the number three in the world rankings present their coach for the coming season. The 30-year-old has already been working with Wiesler for several years. The Belgian Fissette had been a member of the Kielerin team since autumn 2017, and Kerber justified the separation with “different views on the future direction”.
Kerber has not reached the quarter-finals of the WTA Tour since her triumph at Wimbledon, but she has set herself a lot of goals for the season finale in Singapore. One of their goals is to “play my best tennis there again,” said Kerber the sports picture: “It’s the last tournament of the year, and I’m going to fool everything I have left, in my body and my head.”
In 2012, when she was still in Istanbul, Kerber had served in the WTA final for the first time, but had also failed in the group stage as in 2013 and 2015. In her dream season two years ago, she only lost in the final after the Grand Slam titles in Melbourne and New York as well as Olympic silver in Rio. “Just from 2016, I still have good memories, which I will try to build on,” said Kerber.