with 18 years later rafael nadal as coach, Francis Roig He ended his cooperation with the former world number 1, which he started with. Tony Nadal and then continued with carlos moya and with the addition of last season marc lopez They won a gold medal in Olympic doubles together at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

“For me it has been a real pleasure and honor to work with Rafa and the rest of the team. We never thought we could have such a long career with him, with so many results, but Rafa is a phenomenon and it makes things seem as they seem.” Easy. I took this decision after much thought and realized that it was time to start a new project”, emphasized roig He said he would start a new phase in his professional career as a coach.

“I have only words of gratitude to Rafa and my teammates who have learned and worked together all these years and have made Rafa a sports legend as he is. The friendship remains and we will see and have fun as we always do. 22 Grand Slams he has won in his career since 2004 and won Collaborating on all of Nadal’s achievements, including the 93 championships, the Catalan coach is for the circuit.”

Nadal recognition

nadal All these years he remained grateful for Roig’s work. Francis has been an important person in my career. I was a kid when we started working with my Uncle Toni,” he commented on his Twitter account, “Francis is a great coach, he knows tennis very well and has helped me a lot to get better. I wish him all the luck in the world in his new project.”