Vera Zvonareva parts company with her coach

Russian women’s No.1 tennis player Vera Zvonareva and her coach Sergey Demekhin have decided to quit their co-operation, which had lasted for almost a year.

It should be reminded that Zvonareva had been preparing to the Fed Cup semi-finals under the guidance of two coaches, Karen Krotov and Demekhin. Now her ex-trainer Sergey Demekhin decided to reveal the reasons of their parting.

«It was Vera’s initiative to employ Karen. Probably, she decided to bring something new into the preparation process. However, I could not agree with that. I have my own vision of her game. And when a new man joined the team, I did not want to be responsible for his actions. Fighting for power and authority would get the whole team in trouble. Therefore, I decided to resign, mostly because I didn’t want to cause any harm to Vera», said Demekhin as quoted by Sport-Express.

«We definitively decided to split after the Federation Cup semi-final, where Vera asked me to help her mostly as a sparring partner. Of course, I’ve been giving her some advice before the match, but the training process has already been passing into Karen’s hands. Maybe Vera really wanted to work with two coaches, but we failed to reach an agreement. I could not see any sense in things like that.»