By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday July 19, 2024
Elina Svitolina has parted methods with coach Raemon Sluiter after greater than a yr of a stable partnership that noticed the Ukrainian return from maternity depart to take her place contained in the High-20 (at the moment she’s ranked No.30).
The 29-year-old former World No.3 broke the information on Friday with a put up on social media.
“I simply needed to allow you to all know that Raemon Sluiter and I’ve determined to finish our working relationship,” Svitolina wrote. “We’ve had a terrific run and Ray has helped me change into a greater participant, for my part he is among the greatest on the market on both tour and I’ll all the time be grateful of what we achieved collectively by means of his and our exhausting work and efforts.”
Elina Svitolina components methods together with her coach Raemon Sluiter.
“He is top-of-the-line on the market on both tour and I’ll all the time be grateful of what we achieved collectively by means of his and our exhausting work and efforts”
Thanks, Raemon đź‘Ź pic.twitter.com/SM9LFkAHLF
— Ukrainian Tennis • BTU (@ukrtennis_eng) July 19, 2024
Sluiter grew to become identified for his work with Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens. He helped information her into the High-10 earlier than her retirement in 2021. Sluiter was additionally useful in getting Svitolina so as to add aggression to her sport, which has been a key cause that she has been capable of compete so successfully since returning to the WTA Tour final season.
Svitolina, a 17-time WTA titlist, missed a yr from April 2022 to April 2023 whereas pregnant together with her first youngster, Skai, who was born on October 15, 2022. The Ukrainian, who’s married to French star Gael Monfils, was as excessive as 17 (in March and in Could) within the rankings however dropped right down to 30 this week.
Svitolina gained the WTA’s comeback Participant of the Yr award in 2023, whereas Sluiter was a finalist for WTA Coach of the Yr.
Svitolina has not settled on her subsequent coach as of but.
