Sven Groeneveld

Sven Groeneveld (born 22 July 1965) is a former Dutch professional tennis player and coach.

Career

He became a professional tennis player at the age of 19, but couldn’t achieve much success. His highest singles ranking was 826 and highest doubles ranking was 837 in 1986.

In 1989 he ended his tennis career, and became a coach. He has coached a wide variety of players, including Monica Seles, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Mary Pierce, Ana Ivanovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Michael Stich, Greg Rusedski, Nicolas Kiefer, Tommy Haas, Maria Sharapova and Mario Ančić, among others. He is also the former head of the Swiss Tennis federation.[1][2]

Between May 2019 and October 2022, he was the coach of Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu.[3] Groeneveld made the split between him and Andreescu public himself, stating that he looking for a new challenge.[4] In May 2023, Groeneveld started working with the Dutch tennis player Botic van de Zandschulp.[5]

References
  1. Wertheim, L. Jon (2009). Strokes of Genius. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 79–80. ISBN 9780547416496. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  2. Tennis Academy Amsterdam - Sven Groeneveld Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Bianca Andreescu's new coach is Sven Groeneveld". 28 July 2021.
  4. Kamakshi Tandon (28 October 2022). "Bianca Andreescu and coach Sven Groeneveld no longer working together". Tennis.com.
  5. Guus Peters (10 May 2023). "Van de Zandschulp wil naar de top met de Cruijff van de Nederlandse tenniscoaches" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant.


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