Very sad to hear he won't be around in January! I really enjoy watching him play and he seems like a genuinely lovely guy. Wish him all the very best and hope he can find good form this year. He deserves good things!
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Its getting worse and worse. He said he was going to start his season in DC vs Benin. What does the national couch do? Dont even call him! He called Joao Sousa, Gastao Elias and Pedro Sousa (good so far) but then he calls Rui Machado that must have played 2 or 3 matches in the last six months. I dont remember the last ime Gil was not called to DC team by couching option. Worring times and shocking decision from Pedro Cordeiro...
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Also support: Soderling, Tipsarevic, Berankis, Djokovic, Kubot, Dolgopolov.
And all the portuguese players, specially: Rui Machado, Frederico Gil, Gastão Elias, João Sousa, Frederico Silva, Pedro Sousa, André Gaspar Murta.
At least Gil found the correct balance for his racket, he said, and now he's back to Lisbon to start his training. He'll surely go to South América, wonder if he'll wait for Vina del Mar, or if he'll start at BucaramangaCH to get some rythm...
Gil is in dire straits... He now quit all his tournaments in the first month of the season. Pre-season didn´t went well, minor injury and not the best sensations with new racket, so he called-off January. He decided to stay with same coach from second part of last season, which is puzzling, since he lost almost every match he played from Estoril onwards...
Now, I just hope, for the sake oh his career, that he finds some sort of form training an extra month, and performs well in South-America Clay Swing in February. Otherwise, I don´t know if he will have the mental strength that it will take to climb-up 100 spots in the rank again, just to get back to Top100.
Playing a lot of minor challengers, and all, a player that for about three consecutive seasons was a solid ATP level player...
Go Gil!
Things are getting worse and worse. As I said before, it was wierd that he kept the same coach for this season, since he didn´t win a decent match with him last season (for six months). Now, after postponing the end of pre-season to the end of January, loosing a lot of points, he now dismissed Bernardo Mota, due to lack of evolution in his prep... He got back to eternal coach Cunha e Silva, for the fourth time, I think.
I hope that once again Cunha e Silva does the trick, but I seriously doubt it. Gil's problems are on his head, but moreover he had a bad pre-season, and now first tournament is just two weeks away...
But wish him the best! Go Gil!
I saw him and chated a while with him in Madrid Masters last year. It's really a shame what's happened to him this last year, I really hope he recovers and shows that he's still a great tennis player.
Frederico Gil
Re: Frederico Gil
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