Andrey Rublev adds two-time Grand Slam winner to coaching team
Andrey Rublev has added Marat Safin to his coaching team in a bid to overturn his poor run of form ahead of the clay season.
Rublev has secured the services of his fellow Russian who won the Australian and United States Open during his playing career.
According to Russian media outlet Bolshe, Safin will join ahead of the clay season but Fernando Vicente will remain the primary coach for the world No 9.
Rublev has struggled for form so far in 2025 and while he did defeat Jack Draper to win in Doha, he was then knocked out in his first games in Dubai, Indian Wells and most recently, the Miami Open.
Rublev worked with Safin last year and said his countryman helped with the “struggle” that had crept into his game.
“I was just kind of in a loop lost with myself for a couple of years of, I don’t know, not finding the way, not understanding what to do, what for,” the 27-year-old said. “I don’t know, sounds a bit maybe dramatic or whatever, like what the reason or purpose to live like that or stuff like that.
“There is no… I don’t know, just completely lost. Let’s put it this way, completely lost with myself and that’s it.
“The thing is one thing when it’s happening one, month, two months, three months. Maybe you still have patience or something. But when it happens one year, two year, three year, four year, five.
“When it’s coming for many, many years, in one moment you cannot take it anymore. It’s like one pain that starts to grow more and more and more and more, and you want to cut the arm and that’s it. So was like this.
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“Then, I don’t know, was taking antidepressants. But then after one year of taking them, I realised that because in the beginning looks like it was a bit better, but then nothing after. After a while I realised that it’s not getting worst, but something’s weird. I don’t like the feeling I’m having now even more. So I just stopped to take them, and that’s it.
“Yeah, then with the help of Marat, he kind of made me understand myself or look at myself, let’s put it that way. That’s it. That was kind of a bit of restart of the bottom. Then from there, at least I was able, little by little, to start to move in a better direction. Now I’m moving little by little in this better direction.
“I mean, like I was saying in the beginning of the year, I’m not happy. I’m not in a good or bad place, but I’m not feeling any more stress, I’m not feeling anxious, I’m not having depression. Let’s put it that way. I’m just neutral. Not happy, not bad, but at least I found a base. That’s a beginning.”
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