Marián Vajda (; born 24 March 1965) is a Slovak professional
tennis
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coach and former player. He is the former head coach of Serbian tennis player
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
, coaching him for almost his entire professional career. Of Djokovic’s 100 men’s singles titles, 85 were won under Vajda’s tutelage. In terms of men’s singles
Grand Slam titles, Vajda is the most successful coach in tennis history, coaching Djokovic to 20 such trophies out of the 24 that the Serbian has won.
Career
Vajda was born in
Považská Bystrica
Považská Bystrica (; ; ) is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh river, around 30 km from the city of Žilina. It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism.
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. He was a member of the Olympic Team of
Czechoslovakia
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, and in 1992 he competed in the Olympic Games of
Barcelona
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, being eliminated in the
first round
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by
Gilad Bloom
Gilad Bloom (; born 1 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles (in 1990) and World No. 62 in doubles (in 1992).
Personal li ...
. He reached the third round of the
1991 French Open, won two singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 34 in September 1987. Vajda is a former captain of the
Slovakia Davis Cup and
Fed Cup teams. Vajda was the coach of
Karol Kučera
Karol Kučera (; born 4 March 1974) is a Slovak tennis coach and former professional player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open the same year.
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from 2001 to 2005. Vajda speaks fluent Serbian.
Vajda has been the coach of
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
from 2006 until 2017, then again from 2018 to 2022. From December 2013 until 2016,
Boris Becker
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was Djokovic's head coach with Vajda remaining part of Djokovic's team. For his achievements with the Serbian tennis player, Vajda won the award for best coach by the
Olympic Committee of Serbia
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in both 2010 and 2011. In 2018, Vajda won the
ATP Coach of the Year award.
Vajda started coaching fellow Slovak
Alex Molčan
Alex Molčan (born 1 December 1997) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Molčan has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 268 achieved on 14 June 2021 ...
in May 2022.
Career finals
Singles (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
References
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1965 births
Living people
Novak Djokovic coaches
Czechoslovak male tennis players
Olympic tennis players for Czechoslovakia
Sportspeople from Považská Bystrica
Slovak male tennis players
Slovak tennis coaches
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
Goodwill Games medalists in tennis
Friendship Games medalists in tennis