Maybe they realized after they retired and took a closer look at their careers how important it was? It’s like… top players don’t always make the best coaches? Just a thought!🤷♀️😉
"Would be hard to hire someone who had a reputation as kinda lazy": Roddick questions players who become coaches as Evert counters in debate
Tennis NewsMonday, 19 June 2023 at 18:15
Andy Roddick sparked a debate with fellow tennis legend, Chris Evert which certainly got Twitter talking about players who were supposedly 'lazy' in their playing days transitioning to coaching.
While there are success stories including Boris Becker, Ivan Lendl and Carlos Moya who transitioned well from both, many coaches on the tour have only played briefly or with minimal success.
Roddick raised this point and called those lazy. "I’m always amazed at the frequency of seeing people who didn’t work that hard in their playing days becoming coaches. Seems like effort is the one thing that would be a prerequisite for coaching ……. Would be hard to hire someone who had a reputation as kinda lazy," Andy Roddick tweeted.
But he found a fellow legend to debate with in Evert and said that maybe they realised they need to work harder when it's too late.
"Maybe they realized after they retired and took a closer look at their careers how important it was? It’s like… top players don’t always make the best coaches? Just a thought!" Evert replied.
Roddick replied again saying it was more about ethic than skill and that if he was a player he wouldn't want to work with someone who didn't make it as a player.
"Definitely agree re top players not being a lock as a good coach. Less about ability in this conversation I guess. I would have just had a hard time listening fully to to someone who didn’t leave it out there. Probably my issue but would’ve been hard for me," Andy Roddick commented.
"This has somehow morphed into a conversation about great players being good coaches versus former lazy/underachieving pros wanting to/being trusted to coach," he responded further.
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