Скачать или смотреть Rafael Nadal parts ways with long-time coach Francisco Roig ending their 18-year-long association

Rafael Nadal suffers a big loss as long-time coach Francisco Roig leaves his coaching team. Roig had been coaching Nadal since 2005 alongside Nadal’s uncle Toni Nadal and was the oldest member of his coaching setup. The 22-time Grand Slam champion took to Twitter to inform about the split.Roig is a former pro himself having had a career from 1987 to 2001. While he did not have a big career, he did win 9 titles in doubles on the Tour while also reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1997 in doubles achieving his highest-ever rank of World No. 23 in doubles. In singles, he was ranked the highest as World No. 60.Nadal took to his official Twitter handle to let everyone know about their split. The former World No. 1 did not cite any reason for their split and by the looks of it, the decision to part ways looks mutually decided between the two Spaniards.“I wanted to inform you that Francis Roig is leaving the team. Francis has been an important person in my career and I am very grateful to him for all these years of work and friendship. When we started working together I was a child and together with my uncle Toni, we started on the circuit.