The ATP is trialing a new on-court coaching and not many players showed appreciation for this kind of rule.
Recently, Taylor Fritz competed at the 2022 Cincinnati Masters and the 24-years-old American lost in the quarterfinals to Daniil Medvedev. He also spoke about the new on-court coaching and he showed his clear disagreement with the new rules.
“I haven't talked to Mike [Russell, Fritz’s coach] and he hasn't talked to me one time since the coaching has become a thing. It's a dumb rule. Tennis is an individual sport. Why are we making it not an individual sport?" questioned Taylor Fritz.
"A huge part of tennis is, in my mind, like as tennis is as much mental as it is physical, and a big part of it is you need to be figuring it out on the court for yourself."
"You need to be the one figuring it out. I think it's ridiculous that you can be mentally not there, not good analytically, not good at kind of working through things and coming up with strategies, and you can have someone tell you what to do. I hate it," Fritz said.
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