Botic van de Zandschulp has parted ways with coach Peter Lucassen after a year. The tennis player’s decision follows a long series of disappointing results.
“The collaboration, which we restarted a year ago, did not offer both of us the perspective we intended,” Van de Zandschulp writes on Instagram. “Therefore, we have decided that it is better for each of us to go our own way.”
Van de Zandschulp has been in a downward spiral for months. The tennis player from Veenendaal did beat Novak Djokovic in Indian Wells this year, but lost more often than he won. At the Australian Open and recently at Roland Garros, he was eliminated in the first round.
As a result, Van de Zandschulp has dropped to ninety on the ATP ranking list. He started the year as number eighty in the world. Van de Zandschulp is therefore in the danger zone. Only the top hundred tennis players do not have to play qualifications for a Grand Slam.
Van de Zandschulp returned to Lucassen in April last year, who led him to the Dutch tennis top as a coach. Fred Hemmes Jr. is now the only remaining coach in Van de Zandschulp’s support team.
It has not been announced whether he will coach Van de Zandschulp in the near future. The tennis player is on the road back from an arm injury, which also plagued him at Roland Garros. As a result of that injury, he recently had to withdraw for the Libéma Open in Rosmalen. The next Grand Slam is Wimbledon, which starts on June 30.