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 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 ...

and

Garbiñe Muguruza Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (; born 8 October 1993) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish 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 Asso ...

, former world number two

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and 2014 Wimbledon finalist

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. He also coached

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles ...

for six months and then Donna Vekic from September 2020 until late 2021.

Personal life

Sumyk is married to former WTA player Meilen Tu, whom he coached to her highest career ranking of 35 in 2007.

Coaching career

Before 2010, Sumyk coached Russian

. After the pair split in 2009, Sumyk became the coach of

. The partnership between Sumyk and Azarenka was successful. In his third year of coaching Azarenka, the Belarusian won her first Grand Slam title at the 2012 Australian Open and reigned as the world number one for 51 of the 55 weeks that followed, during which she successfully defended her Australian Open title in

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. Sumyk split from Azarenka shortly after the

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after the Belarusian endured an injury-plagued 2014. Sumyk then coached former world number five

from February until August 2015. He then coached

; under his stewardship, Muguruza won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2016 French Open and her second at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. Sumyk was not present in that tournament because his wife Meilen Tu was pregnant at the time. Sumyk continued to coach Muguruza until the pair split at the

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. He then started coaching Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova until late March 2020 when they split after six months. According to an interview with the website Kommersant, she attributed a recent hip injury to Sumyk's training and tournament scheduling. She also discussed that any coaches have large egos and that she realized at the Australian Open that the relationship with Sumyk was not conducive to making improvements on court.

References

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