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Bellucci ends partnership with coach

10 November 2011, 15:02

Brazil's top-ranked tennis player Thomaz Bellucci has ended his partnership with Gustavo Kuerten's former coach Larri Passos.

Bellucci says they reached an agreement to part ways after a series of disappointing results. Passos was Kuerten's coach when the Brazilian won three Roland Garros titles.

Since hiring Passos about a year ago, Bellucci has won 25 matches and lost another 25, without winning a title.

The 36th-ranked player said in a statement late on Wednesday that he was grateful for all that he learned from Passos but that it was better to end the partnership.

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