ipo2;313295 wrote:This talk about a new coach is absolute nonsense !!!!
Dartagnan: Why not? It is also a solution to increase the level of tennis of Masha. I didn't say that is the only solution but it might be a solution. Yuri should help Masha too because he has a life experience and he is a sport person.
Look, Maria got to the final in the Australian Open , despite NO warm up tournaments. She was obviously delighted beating Kvitova on the way. So should Kvitova change her coach ??
Dartagnan: No Kvitova is not going to change her coach because she has just won the Wimbledon final.
Then in Paris she was obviously under par with flu. People really do talk rubbish !!.
Dartagnan: Why did Masha play a tennis match if she came down with flu? She should have a rest. If I were her coach I would not accept it. She didn't play the match in Moscow but she played the match in Paris. it is not consistent. 
I suggest that unless any of you have ever been a Number 1 in the world, or in the Top 3 (like Maria is again now) that you do NOT KNOW more than she does !!!!!!
Dartagnan: Yes but Martina Navratilova was Number one and she has a better experience than you.
If Martina Navratilova challenged Masha publicly it is not because she is against Masha but because she wants Masha to play a better tennis. Her advice are not totally wrong. Martina knew Masha a long time ago.
Dont forget this: An old friend is a better adviser than two new ones!!!!
According to Navratilova:
Navratilova said. ___________________________________________________________________ She is right. And her coach had to realize it and react. But nothing happens. They let things flow but it flows in the wrong way. Maria is not good enough physically, she has not enough endurance, she has to get more skills, move better ( she is too lazy to move, she must get moved), avoid those DF and unforced errors and upgrade her net activity which is like non existent. A good coach had to realize this since a year ago, but nothing happened as we saw in all the tournaments she played. It's too bad that now she looses to everybody. ( not only to big ones ).
For people who forgot who is Martina Navratilova: 
Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová, born October 18, 1956 in Prague) is a retired Czech American tennis player and a formerWorld No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."[1]
Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is one of just three women to have accomplished a career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set") a record she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. She holds the open era record for most singles titles (167) and doubles titles (177). She recorded the longest winning streak in the open era (74 consecutive matches) and three of the six longest winning streaks in the women's open era. Navratilova, Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam singles titles (six). Navratilova reached 11 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13. In women's doubles, Navratilova andPam Shriver won 109 consecutive matches and won all four Grand Slam titles in 1984. Also the pair set an all time record of 79 titles together and tied Louise Brough Clapp's and Margaret Osborne duPont's record of 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles as a team. In addition she won the season ending WTA Tour Championships a record 8 times and made the finals a record 14 times and won the doubles title a record 11 times. Navratilova is the only person of either sex to have won eight different tournaments at least seven times.[2]
Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship[3] when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency.[4] At the time, Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovakian Sports Federation that she was becoming too Americanized and that she should go back to school and make tennis secondary.[5] Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981, but on January 9, 2008, she had her Czech citizenship restored.[6] She stated she has not renounced her American citizenship nor does she plan to do so and that the restoration of her Czech citizenship was not politically motivated.[7][8]
Navratilova is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy. She also serves as the Health and Fitness Ambassador for AARP[9] in an alliance created to help AARP's millions of members lead active, healthy lives.
"I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi." said Sharapova Maria.
