{
  "id": 20144801,
  "title": "Coco Gauff’s Ex-Coach Urges Aryna Sabalenka to Make Major Changes To Her Team After WTA Finals Heartbreak: “Hard Questions to Figure Out”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/coco-gauffs-ex-coach-urges-aryna-sabalenka-to-make-major-changes-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-15T08:39:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/coco-gauff-ex-coach-urges-083909553.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Brad Gilbert, Coco Gauff's former coach, has advised Aryna Sabalenka to make significant changes to her team following her disappointing performance at the WTA Finals. Sabalenka's run at the tournament ended after she lost two of her three round-robin matches. Despite not winning a Grand Slam this season, she had managed to lift two titles before - the Australian Open in 2023 and 2024. Sabalenka's coaching team currently consists of Anton Dubrov and Jason Stacy, but Gilbert believes Sabalenka would have benefited from promoting Max Mirnyi as her head coach. Gilbert also suggested that Sabalenka should focus on improving her serve and forehand during the off-season, as he felt these aspects of her game had been letting her down. Following her loss to Elina Svitolina, Sabalenka issued an apology, clarifying that her comment was directed at a group of spectators who were aggressively cheering her mistakes, not Svitolina herself.",
  "summary": "Coco Gauff’s former coach Brad Gilbert weighed in on Aryna Sabalenka’s WTA Finals disappointment, urging the Belarusian to make changes to her coaching team. The Belarusian stopped working with Max Mirnyi ahead of the WTA Finals, but is still working with head coach Anton Dubrov and performance coach Jason Stacy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}