Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina says his coach “abandoned” him midway through his French Open campaign and flew to Miami without saying a word.<\/p>\n
The 21st seed was asked in a news conference about reports on France TV that he fired his coach, Mariano Puerta, after an argument following his first-round victory over Damir Dzumhur.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t fight. Everything was normal,” Davidovich Fokina, who lost to Thiago Agustin Tirante in the second round on Wednesday, said.<\/p>\n
“After the match against Dzumhur we had lunch and after that I went to cool down.<\/p>\n
“He said he was feeling bad and was going to the hotel.”<\/p>\n
Davidovich Fokina said he received a text message a few hours later from Puerta – runner-up to Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros in 2005 – which said he “would not continue”.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t say anything to anybody, to the team, he just took the flight and he flew to Miami without saying a word to us,” Davidovich Fokina said.<\/p>\n
“My wife even called [him] on the telephone, me too, so I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“He goes on with his life and I with mine. If he acts like this at 45 years old, well, they’re his decisions.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina says his coach “abandoned” him midway through his French Open campaign and flew to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-668706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}