Nishesh Basavareddy and his team confirmed on Thursday the recent speculation that he has hired Gilles Cervara as his new coach, as reported by the ATP website.
Cervara coached Daniil Medvedev for eight seasons, during which the Russian was present. 1 in the World and we won the 2021 open. He also finished runner-up at the Grand Slams five times. Their partnership ended in 2025 US OVER, where medvevevev’s slump reached the point of losing five places to Benjamin Bonisi in the first round.
The current world no. 13 won just one grand slam match this year.
Basavareddy, 20, is ranked 167 after briefly breaking inside the top 100 at No. 99 in the summer. The American, who played college tennis at Stanford, won eight Tour-Level matches in 2025. That includes the auckland run, after which Vokok started BasavDddy’s next event is the artegen atp finals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia later this month.
Medvedev is now coached by Thomas Johansson. The 29-year-old finished this past season on a high, finally capturing the ATP title in Almaty to go along with doing the jobs in Beijing and Shanghai and the Paris result.
