Milos Raonic may be coming off a career-best season, but that does mean his coaching group will remain intact for 2017. Raonic, the self-proclaimed CEO of Milos Raonic Tennis, has split from coach Carlos Moya. The Canadian announced the decision on Wednesday.
“Thank you to Carlos Moya for helping me tremendously this year, alongside my team, to get the best out of me,” Raonic posted on Instagram. “Under Carlos’ direction and tutelage I have played my best yet to date. We will no longer be continuing our coaching relationship but remain close friends. I wish him all the best.”
The world No. 3 was already working with Riccardo Piatti on a full-time basis before brining Moya on board in January of this year. Raonic also added John McEnroe as a part-time coach for the grass-court swing and at times during the recent World Tour Finals, where he reached the semis before losing a three-set thriller to eventual champion Andy Murray.
Raonic picked up a career-best 52 match victories in 2016, which included a run to the Wimbledon title match (lost to Murray). The 25-year-old captured one title, right at the start of the season in Brisbane–where he took down Roger Federer to lift the trophy.
Raonic will continue working with Piatti.
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Sorry, there is just not much I like about this guy. Too much ego for my taste, I think he made a bad decision.
One title and a 250 at that and he’s #3?
I find this 2016 season having a similar scenario as 2013, where the top two were so far ahead of the rest, and the no.3 and no.4 guys were each getting 5000+ points in both years – Raonic 5450, Stan 5315 in 2016 vs Ferrer 5800 and Murray 5790 in 2013.
Both Raonic and Ferrer didn’t win any slam in their respective year as YE no.3, both reached one slam final and one slam SF, both reached a number of finals including one or two Masters finals but won only a 250 title ( Ferrer won 2). The no. 4 guys in both years won a slam (Stan USO, Murray Wimbledon) but were not good enough to reach no.3 (in Murray case he suffered back injury, skipped the FO and shortened his season after USO).
In these two years, the big four weren’t in full force, it’s no wonder the top two guys were so far ahead of the rest.
Was nobody watching tennis before The Big Four created a monster?
Davy’s No 3 finish in 2005, Hewitt’s No 3 finish in 2004 and Safin’s in 2002 were hardly more impressive.
Yep, the Big Four is a monster. They gobbled up most points and most big titles. However, there were years where one or two of its members were not in full force. I think the strongest competition among the big four came in 2008, 2011 and 2012.
In 2008, Murray was the late entry into the big four, joining the other three only after the USO that year. Rafa finished the year as YE no.1 having 12100 points and the no.2 and 3 guys had 9000+ points each (adjusted to current point system). Murray finished as no.4 with 5000+ points if I’m not wrong, overtaking Davy for that position. We rarely see the no.3 guy getting >9000 points these days.
2011 and 2012 saw the big four at their strongest collectively, though we can argue that Rafa was only half a season there in 2012; or that Fed was 30/31 during those times.