Daniil Medvedev has parted ways with Thomas Johansson after almost a year working together, becoming the third top-20 player in 48 hours to announce a coaching split as the fallout from Wimbledon spreads across the men’s tour.
Johansson confirmed the decision on his Instagram story on Saturday. “After almost one year working together, Daniil and I have decided to part ways,” the Swede wrote. “I want to thank Daniil for his trust and his hard work during this time and I wish him and his team all the best for the future.”
Medvedev responded on his own Instagram Stories. “Thank you @tompatennis for the great work,” the Russian wrote. “It’s been a pleasure working with you and I appreciate all you have done.”
The 30-year-old, ranked No. 9, has now changed his coaching set-up twice inside a year. He ended an eight-year partnership with Gilles Cervara after the 2025 US Open, a relationship that had taken him to the world No. 1 ranking, six Grand Slam finals and the 2021 US Open title. Johansson, the 2002 Australian Open champion, joined in September 2025 alongside Rohan Goetzke.
The ATP described the decision as Medvedev parting with one of his coaches, and no announcement has been made regarding Goetzke, who is understood to remain part of the team. The results under Johansson were not the problem at tour level. Medvedev won titles in Almaty, Brisbane and Dubai during their time together, reached the final at Indian Wells and made the semi-finals in Rome.
It was at the majors that the partnership failed to move the needle. His best Grand Slam performance of the season was a fourth-round run at the Australian Open, and his Wimbledon ended in the third round with one of the more painful defeats of his career.
Seeded eighth at the All England Club, Medvedev led by a break in all three sets against world No. 74 Jan-Lennard Struff, including 5-2 and 40-15 in the third, and lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 7-5. He had earlier beaten Marin Cilic and Daniel Merida without alarm. “Disappointing to lose this way,” Medvedev said afterwards. “I should do better. I didn’t manage to serve exactly the way I wanted. I didn’t manage to play the way I wanted in the tie-breaks.”
Asked to assess a season that has flickered rather than caught fire, he was blunt. “Up and down, and a bit more on the down side lately,” he said. “I’m really disappointed, because I felt like I could potentially do well at Wimbledon. It’s not only about the result. It’s also about the game you play.”
Medvedev’s exit is the third in a compressed sequence. On Friday, Felix Auger-Aliassime announced the end of a partnership with Frederic Fontang that had run for almost a decade, three days after a five-hour quarter-final defeat to Novak Djokovic — the longest quarter-final in Wimbledon history. Within hours, Jiri Lehecka confirmed he had ended an eight-year relationship with Michal Navratil.
Both men will leave Wimbledon at career-high rankings. Auger-Aliassime, the world No. 4, reached the quarter-finals; Lehecka, No. 14, went out in the fourth round to Alexander Zverev. Neither has named a replacement.
That makes three players inside the top 15 heading into the North American hard-court swing without the coach who took them there — a reshuffle of a size the men’s tour has not seen at this point in a season for some years, and one that will now play out in public over the next fortnight as teams are assembled before the Masters 1000 events in Canada and Cincinnati.
For Medvedev, the timing carries a particular edge. Hard courts remain the surface on which he built his career, and the American summer is where he has done his best work: a US Open title, multiple deep runs, and a game that has always translated better to the medium-paced concrete of North America than to grass or clay. He arrives at it, for the second consecutive year, in the middle of rebuilding his corner.
“The principal is the competition,” he said at Wimbledon. “I just want to win every time I step on the court. The only way is to go forward and try to do better next time.”
