The WTT is an unusual creature in the tennis world, where players are part of a team, fans are encouraged to be raucous, “let” serves are in play and it behooves a coach to keep things light. She will relocate to New York for the brief WTT season, with the opener on July 15. Women’s Open golf tournament, and their 9-year-old twins. “She was starting her comeback when she came last year, so she should do better this year, but in any case she’s a great girl and a good addition to the team.”įernandez, WTT’s lone female coach, lives in Florida with her wife, Jane Geddes, who originally is from East Northport and won the 1986 U.S. “People love to watch (Bouchard),” Fernandez said. Isner and Bouchard are stars who will sell tickets for their limited appearances. The team’s three big-name “franchise” players are back: Mardy Fish, John Isner and Eugenie Bouchard.įernandez said her goal is to use Fish more judiciously after he seemed to tire late in a successful season last year. “We needed a female Neal to make the finals last year, and we didn’t have that,” Fernandez said. The team added doubles specialist Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in search of a female counterpart to its successful male doubles expert, Neal Skupski. “But sometimes I wonder if I would have done better.”įernandez, 54, instead has a more practical plan for her second season after leading the Empire from two victories in 2016 to seven last summer, one match short of the WTT finals. This past year she served as coach for the New York Empire World TeamTennis team.“No, no,” she said, laughing. She’s managed to stay active on the court, coaching the University of South Florida women’s tennis team in 2002 and coaching in various other capacities over the years.
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