Next in line
Voices drive landlolue & cina up
Landelies coach Oscar Burrieza opens up about their relationship
November 25, 2025
Martin Landela
Martin Landeliece celebrates with his coach Oscar Burrieza after winning the ATP Challenger Tour title this season.
By Sam Jacot
In tennis, a competitive sport, it’s easy to forget how much of a player’s identity is formed long before they step onto the court. For Martin Landeliece, the strong rise towards the 2025 next finals presented by PIF has never been where his talent is growing, coming from the right voice around him, pushing, guiding, guiding.
One of those words belongs to Oscar Burrieza, one of the two Spanish coaches, alongside Esteban Carril.
Landelies’ partnership with Burrieza began over the phone. Landeliace was just 14, full of energy but still a mystery to the top coaches. Burrieza was working with established interests in Madrid when Angeli’s father already tried to get out.
“I remember that his father called me and talked to me about the possibility of teaching Martin,” Burrieza told Cptour.com in September. “He wasn’t convinced that I would be open to coaching a 14-year-old. He asked me if I knew him.”
Burrieza did what a coach does when curiosity goes astray. He went online, downloaded a few games and watched.
Burrieze said: “Instantly, I liked what I saw. “From the first time we met, we had a good connection. Even from the beginning, I saw that he was a really good kid, mature for his age, responsible, great to work with.”
That easily turned into years of instruction, development and vision. It’s a combination that has developed one of the most balanced young players on the tour.
Landelice captured the US Boys’ Singles title in 2022 and lifted his first ATP Challenger Tour title in 2024. The second win at that level follows a career-high, reaching the PIF ATP ranking in October.
The rise of Landelies is built brick by brick and every milestone hits with the usual combination of pride and purpose of burrieza.
“As a coach, every time you get a good result with your player, you feel proud and happy,” said Burrieza. “I’m happy for them, but also you and the work you put in. When Martin became the whole world.
Which sets up separation without more than his backhand or his court. Burrieza believes his greatest asset is something extraordinary, something almost intangible.
“For me, his balance, mentally, is one of his greatest talents,” Burrieza said. “Tennis is brutal mentally. Most weeks, you lose this one. But Martin has this ability to wake up the next day and play emotionally.” That works the same.
It also improved. Burrieza gives him space, allows him to be independent, wakes him up to be 19. They travel together, train together and find a rhythm in Mundane. Even under the professional structure, there is warmth that gives it all.
“We don’t have to be friends because I’m his coach,” said Burrieza. “I care a lot, as a person. I love him, and I want the best for him.”
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It’s a team that works for this generation of #NextnatP Stars. The Italian Federico Cina knows about intimacy. His rise, including his first tour win in Miami and the ATP Challenger Tour Finals, was built around a familiar voice that he stretched every day: his father and coach, Francesco Cina.
“It’s probably the hardest part, you’re a coach on the court and a father on the court,” said Cina. “But my father is good apart from this. On the court, he talks to me as a coach, and out of the court is my father.”
They break opponents together. They solve problems together. And when the pressure goes, Francesco organizes his son in the same way Burrieza atealies.
“My coach and my father remind me to keep practicing,” said Cina. “Keeping that spirit is very important, and the results will come.”
Burrieza will be hoping to push the country to the next level this year in Jeddah, where the Spaniard is hosting the next Gen ATP finals presented by PIF. For Cina, a little more progress with her father Francesco and she will be in good shape to qualify for the 20 and under event in 2026.
This is the fifth feature of our Next Gen ATP series Next in line. Read our other stories here:
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