Romania’s Halep to continue contract with Wim Fisette by year-end, wants to work hard for other Grand Slam finals

Romania’s tennis star Simona Halep, who played the Roland Garros final last weekend but went down to Russian Maria Sharapova after three sets, said she will continue her collaboration with coach Wim Fissette until the end of the year. Halep, 4th seed WTA, set to go up to third seed after taking part in the final, started working with Fissette in January this year, and their contract was due to end this month, according to Mediafax newswire. The Romanian tennis player did not want to comment on the chair referee, as she does not know the rules very well. “However I believe Maria took quite long before serving,” the Romanian has said upon returning home on Sunday, June 8. She added she has learned from this match, and from an important moment during the decisive set, at 4-4. The Romanian, who was at her first Grand Slam final, says she will work even more to play in other Grand Slam finals. “I was very close to winning this final, but it was also bad luck on some moves, but I only took the positives,” said Halep. “This tournament have me confidence that I can play good tennis. I was happy I was not very nervous during the final and that I could play how I wanted,” she added. She’s not keen in defeating the world’s number one Serena Williams, who was eliminated from the Roland Garros early in the competition: “I don’t think it is the most important for my career to beat Serena. I would want to defeat her one day, but it is not all I think of. I want to play my own game and progress as much as possible,” Halep went on. The Romanian landed in Bucharest on Sunday, after playing in the final on Saturday. She plans to spend a few days in her home city of Constanta, on the Romanian seaside, then appear at Hertogenbosch for the tournament on grass. Romania’s tennis player Simona Halep has lost the Roland Garros title, after a spectacular final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova on Saturday, June 7. "It was the toughest Grand Slam final I have ever played. All respect for Simona, she played very well," said Sharapova, now a two-time winner at Roland Garros. In a three-set match that lasted a little over three hours, Halep lost to Sharapova, 4-6, 7-6, 4-6. Sharapova, 27, number 7 WTA, won the first set after about one hour, but Halep, 22, managed to take back control of the game and win after tiebreak in the second set, which lasted for 72 minutes. It was a balanced and intense match, with the first decisive third set played at Roland Garros in the last 13 years.The decisive third set between the Russian and the Romanian lasted for about an hour, with Sharapova and Halep managing to control the game quite evenly. However, Sharapova emerged winner. Romania’s tennis ace Simona Halep loses at Roland Garros after intense final against Russian Sharapova editor@romania-insider.com