Player Zone Coaching Team

• Since 2011, he has worked as a personal coach with ATP, WTA, and ITF-level players, including Varvara Lepchenko (career-high WTA 19, 3rd round US Open), Christopher O’Connell (ATP 52), Danilo Petrović (ATP 130), Pedja Krstin (ATP 159), Lina Gjorcheska (WTA 170), Nina Stojanović (WTA 184), Ksenia Knoll (WTA 255), Miljan Zekić (ATP 188), Marko Tepavac (ATP 178), Milana Spremo (WTA 393), Barbara Bonic (WTA 344), and others.

Since 2007, he has worked as a personal coach with ATP and ITF-level players, including Marko Tepavac, Stefan Milićević, Danilo Petrović, David Savić, Miljan Zekić, Bojana Jovanovska, Luka Ilić, Stefan Rakić, Goran Marković, Emil Polić, and others.
From 2007 to 2010, he served as head coach of Serbia’s U12 men’s national team, and from 2010 to 2019 he was a coach of the Serbian women’s national team.

Career-high WTA ranking No 393
Career-high ITF Juniors ranking No 42
GPTCA Level B licensed coach
Winner of five $10,000 ITF singles titles and three $10,000 ITF doubles titles
Competed at all four Junior Grand Slam tournaments
Coaching Experience
From 2017 to 2019 she worked with junior players at leading tennis academies in Germany
Languages: English, German, Italian, Serbian

Career-high ATP ranking No 950
Sparring partner to Jelena Janković WTA No 6
Coach and sparring partner of the Serbian Fed Cup team from 2010 to 2014 including silver medal in 2011
Coach of Aleksandra Krunić WTA No 132 from 2011
Coach and sparring partner to Ana Ivanović at the London Olympic Games in 2012
Captain of the Serbian U18 national team in 2014 gold medal.
Coach at Player Zone Tennis Academy since 2017

Over 20 years of coaching experience in Serbia and internationally
Worked with top national juniors including Orange Bowl U12 winner and European TE U16 No 2
From 2006 to 2010 served as Director of Junior Development at RMTA Midtown Tennis Club in New York and High Performance Coach at Tennisport TC
His player Aleksa Pisarić Career-high rankings TE No 8 ITF No 42 ATP No 962
Currently competes for Pepperdine University in California

Over 15 years of coaching experience with junior and professional players
Former Serbian U16 national champion as a player
Started his coaching career working as sparring partner to Bojana Jovanovski WTA No 32
Worked for six years with Doroteja Joksović career-high ITF No 215 and WTA No 1050 following her on international junior and professional events
Extensive international tournament experience Currently coaching Darya Astakhova career-high WTA No 181