Roger Federer Hires Coach Paul Annacone: One Day at a Time

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Published: August 9, 2010

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For those of you who may have been away on an extended flight outside the ozone of this planet, Roger Federer has hired coach Paul Annacone, and he will be working with the American for the first time at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Ontario.  

The two have been sighted in the English-speaking Canadian province, where they will begin their trial coaching enterprise. 

If you are new to tennis, you may not be aware that Annacone served as a coach for Pete Sampras, who held the No. 1 ranking during much of the 1990s. Annacone worked with Sampras primarily from 1995-2001.  

As a result of his phenomenal reign, Sampras currently owns the record for the most weeks ranked at No. 1, 286 weeks—a mark Federer was within one week of reaching and two weeks of surpassing back in June of 2010.

No one can deny the importance of Federer’s move to hire a coach. The man from Switzerland has fallen from being one of the top two in tennis for the first time since 2004.  

The media has moved to the side of optimism, although his move might be regarded as inspiring or desperate, depending on your point of view on the current state of Federer’s tennis.  

In order to assess the impact of his decision on those nearest and dearest to the Swiss maestro, all you need do is visit Federer’s website, where his fans carry on a never-ending conversation about every aspect of Federer’s life—from his life as a father to twins to the color of his on-court tennis attire or to his ominous fate in the ATP rankings.  

There is currently an 81-page thread, built upon a previous 260-page thread, discussing the hiring of a coach, his qualifications, his fit with Federer, and what it all ultimately means to Federer in terms of continuing his dominance at the top of the men’s game.  

Irrevocably, the consensus is that hiring Annacone was ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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