Riccardo Piatti ( Italian: Riccardo Piatti ; born November 8, 1958 ) is an Italian tennis coach. He coached several players who entered the top 10 of the ATP , including Novak Djokovic , Ivan Lyubichich , Richard Gasquet and Milos Raonic [1] .
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Career
Piatti began playing tennis at the age of nine at the Villa d'Este tennis club in Cernobbio . [2] . The idea to become a coach first came to him at the age of about 20, when the club’s head coach was injured, and Piatti was asked to replace him for a short time [2] .
For several years, he studied as a coach at the Tennis Academy Nick Bolletieri [2] .
Riccardo began as a private coach for professional players in 1988. Among the tennis players whom he coached at the dawn of a coaching career, Renzo Furlan (No. 19 in the world ranking) [3] , Cristiano Caratti (No. 26) [4] and Omar Camporese (No. 18) [5] .
He began working with Ivan Lubicic in June 1997 [6] , when the Croat was 954th in the world [7] . These relationships continued until the end of Lyubichich’s professional gaming career in 2012. Lyubichich made tremendous progress working with Piatti, at one time being the third racket of the world [7] .
From autumn 2005 to June 2006, he also coached Novak Djokovic, who was promising at that time. Djokovic broke up with him because of Piatti's refusal to deal with him full time. In 2011, Piatti said that even then he knew that Djokovic could become the number one in the world at the level of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer [8] .
In 2017, he founded his Academy in Bordighera called the Piatti Tennis Center, officially opening it in April 2018. [9]
In August 2019, it was announced that Riccardo Piatti would become the new mentor of Maria Sharapova [10] , who had previously conducted a training camp at his Academy [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Milos Raonic: ATP Rankings History . Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Mirco Jeraci. Riccardo Piatti: 'No way you do not win' (Italian) (unspecified) ? (July 30, 2014). Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Renzo Furlan: Bio . Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Cristiano Caratti: Bio Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Piatti Tennis Team . Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Ivan Ljubičić: Bio . Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Ivan Ljubičić: ATP Rankings History . Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Mark Meadows. Djokovic's ex-coach expected Serb's rise (May 26, 2011). Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Presentato il Piatti Tennis Center: la strada verso il professionismo
- ↑ Sharapova will work for US Open with coach Choric Piatti
- ↑ Secret training camp at the Riccardo Piatti Academy