Chichipas for his father: “I wanted to protect him, he’s hurt but I don’t blame him”

He spoke of the removal of his father from his coach’s position, stressing among other things that he made this decision for his own good. Speaking on the podcast “Tennis Insider Club” by Caroline Garsia and Borha Duran, Stefanos Chichipas explained that he took “a divorce” with his father in order to protect him, after seeing him suffer a ADVERSION In detail: “I don’t think I could have done it without my father, he was there for me every day, as a father and as a coach, he gave me advice and helped me every day. He was there all along. We had intense moments, but that’s normal, it couldn’t have been different. He was always there for me and he’s a very emotional man, he always showed me how I should do it. He’s a man of honor, and when he was wrong, he’d admit it and come and tell me. CORVERSE I decided to stop our cooperation because I could see that a lot of things started to bore him, he didn’t have the same energy levels. Maybe I made more mistakes than usual. And I was thinking maybe it was years before I took my own way, but it was hard for me to disconnect from my father who had done so much for me. After all, it was he who brought all these beautiful things into my life and removing him would be something that would hurt him. Since September when I decided to stop our cooperation, we’ve been in contact, we’re talking and I need him as my father, because I think that with our relationship in tennis things have been confused and I lost that value of the father I would like to have in my personal life. I had a more trade sense when I was with my father, I had him more connected to tennis in my head. This has upset me in recent years, because I’ve always needed my father by my side, but as I remember him when I was 12. It hurts to see him around me stressed, to see him suffer. And that’s why I let him go, because with his personality he would never admit that he suffered or felt bad. And if he doesn’t, I’ll have to do it for him. At the end of the day, it’s something I did for his own good and to protect him. I think he’s still hurt to this day, but I don’t blame him, I understand him. I understand it takes time, so I tried to take it easy. We talk, but we don’t talk every day, that might seem like I’m desperate and I need him back. I try to do it in a healthy way and I want him to be next to Stephen, not player Stephen.”