António van Grichen (born October 3, 1978) is a tennis coach, best known for being the former coach of former WTA World No. 1

Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...

. He has also coached

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...

, Ana Ivanovic, and

Jarmila Gajdošová Jarmila Wolfe (née Gajdošová, formerly Groth; born 26 April 1987) is a Slovak-Australian former tennis player. In her career, she won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and ten doubles titles on ...

, and as of August 2014, is the current coach of

Marcos Baghdatis Marcos Baghdatis ( el, Μάρκος Παγδατής, ar, ماركوس بغداتيس; ; born 17 June 1985) is a Cypriot former professional tennis player. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2006 Wimbledo ...

Coaching career

Van Grichen started coaching

in 2005, when she was the World No. 1 at junior level (World No. 220 overall). During this time, Azarenka reached the world's Top 10 and won what was, at the time, the biggest title of her career, by defeating

Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...

in the final of the 2009 Miami Masters. That year, she reached her first two Grand Slam quarter-finals, at the French Open and Wimbledon, losing to

Dinara Safina Dinara Mubinovna Safina (; ; tt-Cyrl, Динара Мөбин кызы Сафина; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. Safina was runner-up in singles at the 2008 French Open, 2009 Australian Open, and the ...

and Williams respectively. Van Grichen ended his association with Azarenka at the end of 2009. Van Grichen then started coaching

in 2010. Under his guidance, Zvonareva was able to win the 2010 PTT Pattaya Open. However the pair split after only two months following an incident in a match against

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

in which Zvonareva appeared to gesture towards her old coach, Sam Sumyk, who was then coaching Azarenka. In December 2010, van Grichen started to coach Ana Ivanovic on a trial basis, however, the pair ended their relationship in February 2011 following Ivanovic's unsuccessful Australian Open campaign. In December 2012, van Grichen started coaching former Top 30 player

.Gajdosova returns to begin long climb back , Bendigo Advertiser
/ref> Later, he moved on to coaching Canada's

Eugenie Bouchard Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; french: Eugénie Bouchard, ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian tennis player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam t ...

but the pair split shortly after Wimbledon in 2013. As of March 2014, van Grichen is the coach of

Monica Puig Monica Puig Marchán, (born September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win a gold medal at the Olympics while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in 2016 at th ...

. Under his stewardship, Puig went on to win her first career singles title at the 2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg.Puig wins first WTA title at Strasbourg
''Sydney Morning Herald'', 25 May 2014

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