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 Victoria Fiodaraŭna Azarenka (born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), having held the position for a total of 51 weeks ...

. He has also coached

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲerə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ran ...

Ana Ivanovic Ana Schweinsteiger (name at birth, née Ivanovic; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tenn ...

, 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 (Greek language, Greek: Μάρκος Παγδατής, Arabic language, Arabic: ماركوس بغداتيس); born 17 June 1985 is a Greek Cypriot former professional tennis player and coach. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Aus ...

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 former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...

in the final of the 2009 Miami Masters. That year, she reached her first two Grand Slam quarter-finals, at the

French Open The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...

and

Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * W ...

, losing to

Dinara Safina Dinara Mubinovna Safina (, ; ; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 26 weeks, and world No. 8 in doubles. Safina ...

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 (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

in which Zvonareva appeared to gesture towards her old coach,

Sam Sumyk Sam Sumyk (born 1967) is a French tennis coach. He is currently coaching Arthur Cazaux. He has previously worked with former world number one players Victoria Azarenka and Garbiñe Muguruza, former world number two Vera Zvonareva and 2014 W ...

, who was then coaching Azarenka. In December 2010, van Grichen started to coach

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 (; , ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis and pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player repr ...

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 the women ...

. 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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