By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday December 18, 2024
Donna Vekic has added a Grand Slam profitable coach to her crew.
The Croatian, who parted methods with coach Nikola Horvat in November, has added Sascha Bajin, the previous hitting associate of Serena Williams and coach of Naomi Osaka, to her crew.
Vekic, who received the Olympic silver medal in singles this yr and likewise reached the Wimbledon semifinals, introduced the information on her Instagram lately.
🇵🇱 Sascha Bajin nowym trenerem Donny Vekić.🇬🇧 Sascha Bajin is the brand new coach of Donna Vekić.
📸 Donna Vekić | Instagram | #czasnatenis pic.twitter.com/akdlq0rchk
— Z kortu – informacje tenisowe | Tennis information (@z_kortu) December 6, 2024
Vekic, presently ranked No.19, is only one spot shy of her career-high rating. She is going to reportedly preserve Pam Shriver as a part of her crew. The Corridor of Famer has been in Vekic’s camp in an advisory function since 2022.
She turned the primary Croatian lady to succeed in the Wimbledon semifinals since 1999 this summer season, earlier than changing into the primary lady from her nation to earn an Olympic medal weeks later in Paris.
Bajin obtained his begin because the hitting associate for Serena Williams then guided Naomi Osaka to a pair of main titles, on the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open. He later labored with Kristina Mladenovic, Dayana Yastremska, and spent two years with former World No.1 Karolina Pliskova, guiding the Czech star to the Wimbledon closing in 2021.
