Ana Bohdan left the Australian Open in the first round, our athlete was defeated by Hungarian Anna Bondar. Ranked 63rd in the world, Ana explained why she fired her coach after her main draw performance in Melbourne.

Ana Bohdan about coach Thomas Drouet: “He has problems with his head”

In an interview for Prosport, Ana told the reason why she fired her coach.

“I don’t have a coach anymore because there were some problems in Adelaide. I think it was the shortest collaboration I’ve ever had with anyone. There are several things in between. It is not even worth talking about this person anymore.

There were several things, because I cannot make such a radical decision even at the end of the world. Fortunately, I had my eyes open and was careful from the start with him, a person I don’t know. I also found some time, let’s try before the Australian Open is over.

He did not leave without a head. I mean, I didn’t say, “This is the person, and I’m going with him.” You never know, and I opened my eyes wide. It’s good that I did it” – Ana Bohdanfor Prosport.

The coach contacted Ana Bohdan on Instagram

“He (not Thomas Drouet) contacted me online. He messaged me on Instagram and I responded. I didn’t have a coach then. I said because I was in the offseason, the offseason, I didn’t want to start then. I told him to start in December, at the beginning.

He came to the dacha, we started training. There, to put it mildly, it was normal, but something was not quite right, at this level. You have to be conscious, know what you are doing.

For this man, upon my honest word, I deserve neither to look him in the eye, nor to greet him ever again. That’s all I want to say. It is not worth talking about.

Think we wouldn’t have made that decision, at the end of the world, as soon as we started working together, if he hadn’t done what he did.

In the middle of the field, in the middle of training, in front of everyone, you can’t shout at me and talk like that out of the blue. It means you’re crazy and I can’t stay with a man like that.

I need balance, I need peace, I need support. I need positive people, I no longer need people who cannot control their behavior” – Ana Bohdanaccording to the cited source.

Before coaching Ana Bohdan, Thomas Drouet partnered with Jacqueline Christian, a player with whom he professionally split after the Transylvania Open 2022 in Cluj-Napoca.

According to the WTA, Thomas Drouet has worked with Jacqueline Christian, Timea Babos, Anna Blinkova, Marion Bartoli, Shuai Peng, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Qiang Wang throughout his coaching career.

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