Ivanisevic had a major role in Djokovic’s recent success, but it appears that their working relationship reached its limit when the two parted ways following the Serbian’s Indian Wells defeat to Luca Nardi. Since then, Nenad Zimonjic, who received Ivanisevic’s blessing, has been training him.
“His tennis IQ is off the charts” : Goran Ivanisevic makes the decision about who should coach Novak Djokovic.
Although the former World No. 1 doubles player appears to be involved just temporarily, a more permanent arrangement could materialize very soon, especially with Monte-Carlo approaching.
“Well, there isn’t really a “true” explanation (for the breakup). According to Tennis Majors, he told Sport Klub, “This really was a difficult and intense five years. One reason is in fact a sense of saturation/fatigue.” “That time during the coronavirus is forgotten by most people. They overlook the fact that, due to his immunization record, he was once dubbed the world’s greatest villain. We were, after all, perpetually in a state of flux.”
Happier times: Goran Ivanisevic and Novak Djokovic had a successful collaboration.
“Yes, we did reach a point of saturation, or what I like to call material fatigue,'” he went on. In essence, I got bored of him and he got tired of me; either way, I stopped feeling like I could be of assistance to him. If I’m being totally honest, I first noticed this emotion while I was in America last year. I won’t go back too far, but as a coach, that Wimbledon loss truly upset me. Of course, the athlete is always the one most impacted.”
“At the end of the day, congrats to Alcaraz, of course. It was just a matter of whether that would be at the conclusion of the year or at some time in this year (2024),” he continued. “It was the superior player, but one or two points here and there might have easily turned out differently; I won’t go into it now.” “Maybe in hindsight you could say it should have been at the end of last year but after the US Open, I had that operation on my knee, I wasn’t there for Paris Bercy, Turin came after that.”