Sam Querrey jokingly labeled Madison Keys "a training nightmare" as the previous 10-time ATP champion thinks she put her husband Bjorn Fratangelo in an uncomfortable spot by making him her coach.
Fratangelo, a former world No. 99, hasn't nonetheless formally retired from professional tennis however he hasn't performed any matches since August 2023. The 32-year-old might have been out of motion for greater than two years now, however he’s nonetheless actively touring since he has been part of Keys' teaching workers for fairly some.
After saying their engagement in 2023, Keys and Fratangelo tied the knot in late 2024. Shortly after, the 30-year-old American WTA star went on to turn out to be a Grand Slam champion on the Australian Open.
Whereas working together with her husband has evidently helped the American WTA star, Querrey means that there could also be moments when it’s onerous for the 2 to separate enterprise from non-public life.
Querrey: What when you get in just a little battle, however you then've obtained a Grand Slam quarterfinal?
"It's obtained to be Madison Keys. Her coach is her husband. Like, how do you separate, like what's happening? I might simply assume that'd be tough. What when you get in just a little battle, however then we obtained like a Slam quarter we obtained to cope with proper now. It simply seems like a nightmare to teach your spouse or vice versa, coach your husband. Yeah. Madison Keys (is a) teaching nightmare," Querrey mentioned on the Nothing Main Present.
In certainly one of her previous interviews, Keys funnily admitted that she needed to "drive" Fratangelo to turn out to be her coach as a result of he initially felt "uncomfortable" with that concept.
"He began serving to me a few 12 months and a half, two years in the past, and he actually didn’t need to. He mentioned he was very uncomfortable with telling me what to do and didn’t need to do it. I principally needed to drive him to return with me," the reigning Australian Open champion mentioned.
