Magnus Norman will be Sinner's new coach from December

Now it's official: after Darren Cahill's farewell, Magnus Norman will join Jannick Sinner's team, former tennis world number 1. The Swede was Stan Wawrinka's coach during all three Slams he won. The world coach will join the South Tyrolean team at the beginning of next month, working alongside Simone Vagnozzi. Born in 1976, Norman's playing career ended very early, at just 27 years old, after victories in Rome, in the Davis Cup and also a Roland Garros final. Hence the choice to become a coach, with the historic collaboration with the Swiss Wawrinka, who retired this year.

Technician with a great work ethic and not very dogmatic

The portrait of Norman that emerges from those who know him well on the tennis court is that of a much less dogmatic coach than one might think: few complications, a lot of listening ability, an enormous work ethic and above all a rare quality at the highest level, that of transmitting calm and confidence. "From a technical point of view he is very prepared, obviously. But - explains to Supertennis Gianluca Marchiori, a 35-year-old from Brescia, coach of the Good to Great Tennis Academy in Stockholm for 12 years - his great quality is that he adapts very much to the player. He doesn't try to force the player into his method: he does the opposite. When he coached Stan he had one way of working, when he coached Soderling he had another."