Darren Cahill is a former professional tennis player and a well-known coach in the Tennis fraternity – what is his record?
Darren Cahill is a former Australian tennis player and the former coach of top stars like Simona Halep, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt and Jannik Sinner. After retiring as a professional player, Cahill has worked as a tennis analyst for the Grand Slam events on the ESPN network and as a coach with the Adidas Player Development Program. Cahill is currently working as the coach of World No. 17 Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner.
During his playing days, Cahill achieved a career-best ranking of World No. 22 in ATP men’s singles and No. 10 in men’s doubles. He won two ATP titles in the singles category and 13 titles in doubles. Cahill never managed to win a Grand Slam title during his playing career – his performance in singles is a semi-final appearance at the 1988 US Open and in doubles he finished runners-up at the 1989 Australian Open.
As a coach, Cahill has multiple notable achievements. He was the coach of Lleyton Hewitt when the Australian won the 2001 US Open and was with Agassi when he won the 2003 Australian Open. Cahill’s latest coaching success came in 2018 when Simona Halep won the French Open.
Darren Cahill has worked with Simona Halep for a number of years and recently opened up about Halep testing positive for a banned substance. Halep was provisionally suspended in October after returning a positive test for Roxadustat at the US Open, a drug which helps increase the production of red blood cells. The former world No 1 has since maintained her innocence and has now received support from her former coach.
Cahill had released a statement at the time when the shocking news about Halep came out. He still maintains: “There’s no way she’d ever ever cheat. She is a great woman and a great person. There’s no way she could have done the wrong thing.” It remains to be seen how things eventually turn out for Halep.
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