Wim Fissette, Iga Świątek and why coaching a generational talent is a challenge‎

After all these years spent coaching some of the best players to lift a tennis racket, Wim Fissette knows and accepts the rules of the game. When results don’t match a player’s expectations, the player can’t fire herself. If other members of the team — a trainer, a sports psychologist, a physiotherapist — have been around longer and have a deeper relationship with her, then the axe falls on the coach. That’s one of the reasons Fissette, one of the most respected and successful coaches on the WTA