Tennis Canada announced Wednesday morning that Noëlle Van Lottum will take over from Sylvain Bruneau as the federation’s head of women’s tennis.
Van Lottum will take office on September 5. Bruneau, however, will remain employed by Tennis Canada in a consulting role, before leaving his position permanently at the end of the year.
The former coach of Bianca Andreescu wants to focus more on his role as an analyst at the Sports Network (RDS).
For her part, Van Lottum, a 51-year-old Dutchwoman, “has extensive experience as a player and coach,” according to the press release written by Tennis Canada.
PHOTO FROM THE X ACCOUNT OF NOËLLE VAN LOTTUM
Noelle Van Lottum
Van Lottum has already reached 57e world rank in singles and 59e rank in doubles in the early 1990s. She also won two WTA singles titles in 1993 and 1996.
Van Lottum was notably a national coach at the French Tennis Federation from 2018 to 2022, before becoming head performance coach at the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association), in the United Kingdom. Over the past 20 years she has worked with several professional players including Kiki Bertens, Petra Martic, Els Callers and Harmony Tan.
Bruneau coached Team Canada at the Billie Jean King Cup from 2004 to 2009, and served as its captain from 2010 to 2018. He has also coached many of Canada’s top female players in recent years, including Bianca Andreescu, Eugenie Bouchard, Leylah Annie Fernandez, Rebecca Marino, Aleksandra Wozniak and Gabriela Dabrowski.
He notably accompanied Andreescu during his conquest of the trophies of the Indian Wells tournament, the National Bank Open and the United States Open in 2019, which earned him the Jack-Donohue prize for coach of the year, according to the Coaching Association of Canada.
With The Canadian Press
