World No.5 Stanislas Wawrinka has added former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek to his coaching team for the grass-court season, the Swiss player said on Friday.
Big-serving Dutchman Krajicek, Wimbledon winner in 1996, will join Wawrinka at London's Queen's Club next week as the Swiss tunes up for this month's grass-court grand slam.
"As I'm always looking to improve on court, I would like to take this opportunity to announce as of immediately that I have added Richard Krajicek to my existing coaching staff to help during the grass court season for the next four weeks," the 31-year-old said on his Facebook page.
"Adding a former Wimbledon champion can only further my knowledge and understanding of the grass. It's a real privilege and honour to add such a champion to my corner."
Krajicek will join Wawrinka's existing coach Magnus Norman and assistant Yannick Fattebert.
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Two-time grand slam champion Wawrinka has never really shone at Wimbledon, losing to Richard Gasquet in the quarter-finals last year and Roger Federer at the same stage in 2014.
It is the only grand slam in which he is yet to reach the semi-finals.
Wawrinka is the latest player to hire a former grand slam champion as a coach.
Canadian Milos Raonic, ranked nine, recently announced he would work with triple Wimbledon champion John McEnroe during the grass-court season.
Federer once worked with Swede Stefan Edberg while world No.1 Novak Djokovic has Boris Becker, another former Wimbledon great, in his camp.
