PiotrSierzputowski
I met a 15-year-old in Warsaw and we worked together for six years, through a Roland Garros title and a World No. 4 ranking. Since then: WTA, ATP, juniors turning professional. If the challenge is there, I am ready. The tour matters less to me.
Bars mark the exact period I worked with each athlete. Numbers are the best ranking reached inside that window, not lifetime peaks. Recent years are shown at a larger scale than older ones.
career-high reached with me current partnership
The drive stays theirs.
The wanting has to come from the player. I can point it in the right direction, but I cannot provide it. Under pressure, the decisions that hold up are the ones they made themselves.
Hire people who know more than you.
Fitness, physio, analysis, psychology. Each with a defined role and a real say in their domain. No competing voices, one direction, no ego in the room.
Nothing important is left to a hunch.
Load, recovery, scheduling, how a match is actually being played. All of it goes into the plan, so the big calls are made on what is really happening and not on a feeling. The numbers inform the decision. The coach still makes it.
- The week after a bad tournamentNo single clock fits every player. Stick to a feedback routine, ask what they saw, keep parents on support and coaches on the plan, then decide the next block.
- When the calendar won’t sit stillPeriodization for juniors whose tournament weeks keep eating the plan. Protect build blocks, shrink the cue, and treat rest as part of the event.
- Two coaches, one plan: who's in charge of a junior's development?A junior can have more than one coach. They cannot have more than one plan. Who owns the year, the cue, and the calendar.
Four ways in.
Strategy call
One 60-minute video call about a match, a technical problem, or a decision you are stuck on. You finish it with a clear next step and an honest read on where the player actually stands.
Match video analysis
Send match or practice footage. You get an annotated breakdown: the patterns costing points, ranked by what to fix first, and the strengths worth building the game around.
Monthly remote advisory
Someone in your corner between tournaments. Regular calls, input on the schedule and the training load, help planning the season, and a person to ask before the decisions that matter.
Coach mentorship
How the method works in practice: taking juniors into the pro game, periodization that survives a tour calendar, and how to build a team around a player.
Scope and fee agreed per engagement. Tell me the problem first.
Every result on that chart has someone else's name on the trophy.
That's the job, and I'd take it again. But the method travels, and it works just as well on your player as it did on mine.