Heinz Günthardt

Playing career

Heinz Günthardt was born in Zurich in 1959. In 1976 he won the boys' singles at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and he played on the professional tour from 1976 to 1990. He won five singles titles, among them Rotterdam in 1980, and reached No. 22 in singles in 1986, but his best results came in doubles, where he won 30 titles and reached No. 3 in July 1985.

With the Hungarian Balázs Taróczy he won the men's doubles at Roland Garros in 1981 and at Wimbledon in 1985, and with Martina Navratilova he won the 1985 US Open mixed doubles and reached the 1986 Wimbledon mixed final; Olympedia credits him with four major doubles titles in all. He played for Switzerland at the 1988 Olympics with Jakob Hlasek.

From 1992 until her retirement in 1999 he coached Steffi Graf, a period in which she won 12 of her 22 major singles titles; he later worked with Jennifer Capriati, Jelena Dokic and Ana Ivanovic. In 2012 he became captain of the Swiss Fed Cup team, now the Billie Jean King Cup, and led Switzerland to the final in 2021 and to its first title in 2022.

On grass

Every grass title: 1

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Wimbledon
1985	Men's doubles	with Balázs Taróczy

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions