Lehecka splits with Berdych

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jiri-lehecka/l0bv/overview'Jiri Lehecka/a has parted with coach a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tomas-berdych/ba47/overview'Tomas Berdych/a after 18 months. The 22-year-old Czech announced the news on social media on Monday./p

pLehecka started with countryman Berdych at Monte-Carlo last year, with the former No. 4 in the PIF ATP Rankings helping guide Lehecka to his maiden tour-level title in Adelaide in January./p

blockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"As of today, by mutual agreement, I have ended my cooperation with a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tomas-berdych/ba47/overview'Tomas Berdych/a, with whom I have been working since the Monte-Carlo 2023 tournament. Our paths are not diverging, though. We will continue to work with Tomáš within the Davis Cup team./pmdash; Jiří Lehečka (@jirilehecka) a href="https://twitter.com/jirilehecka/status/1835676417813573671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"September 16, 2024/a/blockquote script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script

p“As of today, by mutual agreement, I have ended my cooperation with a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tomas-berdych/ba47/overview'Tomas Berdych/a, with whom I have been working since the Monte-Carlo 2023 tournament,” Lehecka wrote in Czech on social media. “Our paths are not diverging, though. We will continue to work with Tomas within the Davis Cup team. I wish him much success and many victories in his new role as the Davis Cup team captain./p

p“My team otherwise remains the same, with coach a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/michal-navratil/n343/overview'Michal Navratil/a, fitness coach a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/radek-stepanek/s694/overview'Radek Stepanek/a, and physiotherapist Carlos Manuel Baptista Carvalho. The general manager of the team is Roman Vik and the agent is Pierre Christen.”/p

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pBerdych was announced on Sunday as the new Davis Cup captain for Czechia./p

pLehecka was sidelined from April until August this year due to a stress fracture in his vertebra but returned to reach the third round in Cincinnati and at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a./p

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