He was working as a fitness coach for former WTA No. 1 player Dinara Safina (2008-2010).
Dinara | Alessandro Safina | Dinara Safina | Dinara Drukarova |
The top four seeds were Serena Williams, the 2009 Australian Open champion, Dinara Safina, the 2009 Australian Open runner-up, Jelena Janković, a former World No. 1, and Elena Dementieva, the runner-up at the recent Open GDF SUEZ tournament in Paris.
In 2011, the Team Kazakhstan involved a famous Spanish academy the Tennis Val which trained Marat Safin, Dinara Safina, Igor Andreev, David Ferrer.