RG17 Highs and lows: #10, Coach carousel wildly spins on

Some stars passed on playing in the French Open, while others weren't allowed in. You know all their names. What matters is what took place inside and outside the lines in Paris. On the heels of a fairly predictable and alternately off-the-chain major event, here are the thoroughly vetted, unequivocal–or entirely subjective–best and worst moments from the 2017 French Open.

See No. 11 here.

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It seems like speed-dating, frankly. The wild ride of a super-coach, namely a retired star, coming alongside an active player to help them take next steps to greatness, followed by … poof said coach is gone.

Roland Garros delivered a good deal of that, from Milos Raonic relieving Richard Krajicek of his duties...

...to Tomas Berdych unloading Goran Ivanisevic:

Meanwhile, Paul Annacone will join Stan Wawrinka’s coaching team throughout the (fleeting) grass-court season, culminating in his Wimbledon title bid. If there’s anyone who can make Stanimal a winner on a vegetated tennis surface, the Tennis Channel commentator and former advisor to Roger Federer and Pete Sampras may be the one.

It remains to be seen whether the highest profile of the lot, Andre Agassi and Novak Djokovic’s coach-charge relationship, will prove to be of long-term use or a relative dalliance between brilliant, complicated minds.

Somewhere Boris Becker waits in the wings. So does Ivan Lendl. Likewise, John McEnroe.

Imagine McEnroe coaching Nick Kyrgios, let alone the concept of being a fly on the wall for one of their conversations. McEnroe, with the notion of harnessing the mercurial Aussie’s talent, please tell us you can be serious.

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