You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.
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I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.
Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.
Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.
Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.
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