Published on November 29, 2024 at 2:59 p.m.
Pole Hubert Hurkacz, world No. 16, has announced the names of his two new coaches for the 2025 season. They are Ivan Lendl and Nicolas Massu!
He finished the 2024 season in relative anonymity, without the slightest quarter-final since that of Cincinnati in mid-August, never really recovered from his knee injury suffered against Arthur Fils at Wimbledon. But in 2025, Hubert Hurkacz promises to do something heavy, and not just with his impressive serve. The 27-year-old Pole, current world No. 16, announced this Friday that he would now be coached by two coaching heavyweights: Ivan Lendl and Nicolas Massu. “Hubi” decided, at the end of August, to part ways with the American coach who had been at his side for five years, and had enabled him to win eight tournaments, including two Masters 1000s (Miami 2021 and Shanghai 2023), Craig Boynton. After an end of the season without a coach, Hubert Hurkacz returned to training in Florida, and posted a photo with his two new coaches, with the caption: “Let’s go, 2025! »
Lendl and Massu shone as coaches
Ivan Lendl (64 years old) returns to service, five years after being sacked by Alexander Zverev, who criticized him for being “more interested in his golf games and his dog”, while the American-Czech believed that he “would be a great player one day but had too many problems to deal with off the field.” Before this year alongside Zverev, the eight-time Grand Slam winner had mainly spent two years with Andy Murray (2012-13), before returning alongside the Scot in 2016, for what was his finest season (Wimbledon, Olympic gold medal, Masters, world n°1). At his side, he will find the Chilean Nicolas Massu (45 years old), retired since 2013. The former Olympic champion (in 2004 in Athens) has had his main coaching experience until then, and it has been successful. From 2019 to 2023, he coached Dominic Thiem and helped him win six titles, including the 2020 US Open. Weakened mentally and then physically, the Austrian then never regained his level. After losing seven places in the rankings between the start and end of the 2024 season, Hubert Hurkacz hopes to return to the Top 10, or even better, with his coaching duo. We will have the opportunity to see (or not) the Pole’s progress from the first week of January during the United Cup in Australia.
