"It's time for drastic choices": Bertolucci believes Musetti and Berrettini should hire a super coach to snap poor start to 2023 season

Former Italian player Paolo Bertolucci believes Lorenzo Musetti and Matteo Berrettini need to hire a 'super coach' to assist them with their subpar performances this season.

"It's time for drastic choices for both of us," said the Italian. "And with a word that cannot be taboo: super coach. That is, a highly qualified figure who supports the technical historians Vincenzo Santopadre and Simone Tartarini, providing players with a different perspective from which to look at their own tennis and that of their opponents."

Bertolucci heaped onto his argument, stating that a different perspective would greatly improve the work that these players had already established, as was evident with members of the Big Four.

"It is not a question of disavowing the work done up to now, of totally cutting off the original roots (even if Sinner has done it), but of relying on a different thought that can complete and refine the path undertaken in recent years," he added. "Even Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray at a certain point in their careers felt it was necessary to include a figure in the team who could provide new references.

"The super coach, mind you, is not a guru called upon to overturn the player's technical references, but rather a consultant who suggests the best management of the match, from its technical and psychological aspects, before and after.

"Specifically, Santopadre for Berrettini and Tartarini for Musetti, who certainly deserves credit for having led the students to the top, would continue to take care of the daily work, equally fundamental in defining an all-round champion. And every self-respecting revolution can also act more deeply, perhaps bringing new skills even in the delicate sector of athletic training."