While much of the credit has gone to coach Patrick Mouratoglou,it’s training guru Mackie Shilstone who’s made Williams’ late-career windfall possibleThe man who helped to remake Serena Williams and save Peyton Manning’s career is not an imposing figure. Mackie Shilstone is slender with a shock of white hair. His voice does not boom. But for years athletes from boxers to baseball pitchers beget reach to his New Orleans office looking for magic. He has given them enough hope that now, at 64 years old, and he is often not called a trainer but “a career-extension specialist”.
His clients include Bernard Hopkins,Roy Jones Jr, Ozzie Smith and Darryl Strawberry. But by the end of this weekend his legacy might be the rebirth of two superstars of different genders in totally different sports who nonetheless beget one priceless commodity: their good arms.
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Source: theguardian.com