Nationality Austria | ||
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Born 21 December 1956 (age 60) ( 1956-12-21 ) | ||
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Dr Gebhard Gritsch is an Austrian high performance sports coach and consultant, and since 2009, fitness coach and consultant to the Serbian tennis professional Novak Djokovic. Gritsch was born on 21 December 1956 in Silz, Tirol, Austria. Gritsch studied Sports Science and Sports Management at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna and obtained his master's degree in 1985. In 1994 Gritsch earned his PhD from the University of Vienna, with his sports science based dissertation “Handbook for player development: From the talented junior to the tennis professional”.
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Career
Gritsch has over 20 years experience in high performance tennis player development, including as National Coach in the Philippines and Indonesia. In New Zealand, he worked as Head Coach for the Central Region, and as High Performance Consultant to the New Zealand Academy of Sports. Recently Gritsch has mainly been recognized for his contribution to the success of Novak Djokovic’s professional career, including through providing sports scientific based training and a balanced, holistic performance management approach to both training and competition.
In addition to working with Novak Djokovic, Gebhard Gritsch provides high performance sports planning expertise to high performance training centres, sports federations and governmental sports organizations.