The former number 2 Swede is ready to receive the baton from Cahill: the goal is to win at Roland Garros. His motto: first build the athlete and then the tennis player
It will be up to Magnus Norman lead Jannik Sinner towards the conquest of the last slam that is not yet in the showcase of the champion from Sesto Pusteria: the goal that Sinner will pursue for 2027 is declared, win the Roland Garros tournament in Paris. The one in which in 2025 Sinner lost the final with Alcaraz after a marathon of almost five hours (and four match balls cancelled) and which this year saw Sinner spend one of the worst days of his career with an illness suffered a few points from the victory and a match that ended with the victory of Cerundolo after hours and hours of agony under a ferocious heat. Magnus Norman, now 50 years old, in 1998 he was part of the Swedish team that won the Davis Cup at the Assago Forum in the final against Italy and in 2000 he triumphed at the Internazionali d’Italia at the Foro Italico in Rome, beating Gustavo Kuerten in the final and immediately afterwards he became number two in the world, losing the Roland Garros final against Kuerten that summer. In short, Italy was in Norman’s destiny.
Farewell to Cahill
These days Darren Cahill is in Monte Carlo together with Simone Vagnozzi to follow Sinner’s return to activity: an excellent relationship has been created between the two over the years and the same goes for the Australian towards Sinner. Jannik has always said that he considers Cahill a second father, so the Australian’s departure from the Sinner staff has no controversial motivation, but is simply a shared choice to follow new paths. Norman’s work as a coach is mainly linked to Stan Wawrinka who under the guidance of the Swede won the Australian Open in 2014, the Roland Garros in 2015 and the US Open in 2016, but in general the Swede is considered a clay specialist, the choice of Sinner (not yet made official) in view of 2027 which the champion
Norman underwent heart surgery
Heart surgery, a pollen allergy and a few other defections led him to retire at 27, but Magnus has never stopped being a competitor. After forty, he chose to push his body to the limit. From the Nice Ironman to marathons, up to the 90 kilometers of Vasaloppet skiing. He was a coach already as a child, he wrote down all the training sessions in a diary and coming from a family of athletes (his father played bandy, his mother was a swimmer for the Swedish national team) found himself having to choose between the racket and his father’s sport (bandy is ice hockey played on a field as large as a football field). And he chose tennis. A brilliant career then heart surgery in 1998 and hip surgery in 2001 which kept him out a lot. Then he dedicated himself to cross-country skiing, without forgetting tennis, so much so that he returned to the field in doubles with Johansson, three years had passed since his retirement, but by playing doubles he understood that he would become a coach. Norman’s rule has always been that first we build the athlete and then the tennis playerperhaps Sinner’s choice goes precisely in this direction given the problems encountered by Jannik in the last year.
