Jeff Coetzee Interview: Developing Belief, Overcoming Losses, Serve Drill, & the AO Run

About this episode

Will Boucek interviews coach Jeff Coetzee about his experiences and insights in developing top doubles players.

Coach Jeff Coetzee is one of the top doubles minds in our sport. He reached a career high of #12 in the world during his playing career, and has since coached some of the best doubles teams on tour, including Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal. Today, he coaches the top WTA doubles team in 2026, Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic. I spoke with Jeff at Indian Wells to unpack their season so far and how he's helped develop Danilina into the player she is today. One of the topics we focus he...

People in this episode

Host: Will Boucek

Guest: Jeff Coetzee

Topics covered

• doubles tennis
• coaching
• player development
• overcoming losses
• serve drills
• Australian Open

Keywords

• doubles tennis
• coaching
• Jeff Coetzee
• Anna Danilina
• serve drill
• Australian Open
• overcoming losses

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Indian Wells

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