By Chris Oddo | Monday February 18, 2019

 

Simona Halep ended her one-week trial with Belgian Thierry Van Cleemput and is coachless again.

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Simona Halep is coachless again.

The world No.2 has elected not to work with Belgian coach Thierry Van Cleemput after the pair spent a week trialing in Doha, where Halep reached the final before falling to Elise Mertens.

Halep told WTA Insider that the pair got along fine but didn’t have the necessary fit to form an effective working relationship.



So we tried for one week and it's finished," Halep told WTA Insider. "We decided to stop because we are not a good fit together. He's a good person, a very nice person, but on court the chemistry is not there. We couldn't fit each other tennis-wise. Personally, he is a very nice person. We are friends."

Simona Halep tells @WTA_insider that she has decided not to continue her collaboration with Thierry Van Cleemput. The former No.1 is happy to go it alone for now.

"We couldn't fit each other tennis-wise. Personally, he is a very nice person."

More: https://t.co/Eu61DX2ik2 pic.twitter.com/vMXHDDu0PY

— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) February 17, 2019

So this is what Thierry van Cleemput had to say about his trial perioad with Simona. ❤ I translated it from Romanian,which was translated from French so there might be some small changes. pic.twitter.com/Iga1EdnhhQ

— AndreeaD🌞🐞 (@thatbackhandDTL) February 17, 2019