Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo has separated from her long-time coach Loic Courteau.
The two-time Grand Slam champion has struggled throughout the 2008 tennis season with multiple injuries and poor results.
She reached the round of sixteen at the US Open last month, but lost in her opening matches at her two subsequent events in Tokyo and Beijing.
Mauresmo underwent an emergency appendectomy during the first part of the 2007 season, and has since suffered from a right adductor strain, thigh strain, rib muscle injury, and most recently, a left thigh injury in June.
The news of the Mauresmo/Courteau split was first published by Reuters. Mauresmo has not yet named a replacement coach and is next scheduled to compete in Moscow at the Tier I Kremlin Cup.
Loic Courteau is former French tennis player and Fed Cup coach. He reached a career high of No. 159 in 1982. Courteau had been Mauresmo’s coach since 2002.
