Jannik Sinner told he should replace Darren Cahill with one of four names by his former coach
Jannik Sinner’s former coach Riccardo Piatti has named the candidates who he feels would be a good fit to take Darren Cahill’s place on the Italian’s team.
Sinner‘s collaboration with Cahill will conclude at the 2025 season as the esteemed Australian is retiring from coaching on the tour.
Cahill joined Sinner’s team in July 2022, and along with Simone Vagnozzi, he has helped oversee the Italian’s outstanding rise to the top of the sport.
Sinner has won 14 of his 19 career singles titles — including all three of his Grand Slams — since appointing Cahill.
The 23-year-old has been the world No 1 since climbing to the peak of the rankings for the first time in June 2024.
“He brought me so many things,” Sinner said when asked about Cahill during the 2025 Australian Open.
“One year is still long. I don’t want to talk so much about his retirement. I feel very, very lucky and happy to be his last player on tour. He has been an amazing, amazing coach and person, not only for me but for all the other players he has worked with.”
Cahill previously helped Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt and Simona Halep win majors and reach world No 1.
Speaking to Corriere della Sera, Piatti — who worked with Sinner for seven years until February 2022 — identified four coaching options for his former charge.
“Carlos Moya, who I had already considered. He was number 1, he knows the circuit. Humanly he is a great person, like Darren,” said the Italian.
“Renzo Furlan, now that he has stopped with Paolini, is free. [Ivan] Ljubicic is very good. Or [Boris] Becker, who we had contacted; but working with Boris is more complicated. These are the names.”
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Piatti was also asked about losing the chance to coach a player to a Grand Slam title when he split with Sinner.
“It’s an idea that I had in my head, but I don’t think I’m worth less as a coach because I haven’t won it yet,” he said.
“And in any case, in Jannik and his three Slam titles, without taking anything away from his team, I see a lot of the work we did together with Dalibor Sirola, Andrea Volpini and Claudio Zimaglia.
“Coaching [Novak] Djokovic was fundamental for me, but I didn’t have the courage to abandon Ljubicic to go full-time behind Novak.”
The Italian also addressed how his life has changed now he is no longer coaching players on the tour.
“I stopped living other people’s lives,” Piatti explained. “52 weeks a year away, the family that revolves around the needs of the player: [Richard] Gasquet, [Ivan] Ljubicic, [Milos] Raonic, Djokovic, Sinner.
“When I finished with Jannik, I admit I had a few months of dizziness, then I went towards what I like: teaching tennis. The Piatti Centre is not a supermarket: here you go through a growth process.
“I did it too. It was a mental click, the priorities changed but tennis remains at the top of my thoughts. Now I chase the dreams of kids.”
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