In just 11 days the Grand Slam on land so longed for by everyone on this tour will begin. Roland Garros is just around the corner and will begin with quite a few doubts regarding the top favorites, especially in relation to the figure of Novak Djokovic. And the world number 1 is not having a year of good results and sensations, taking into account even more his recent defeat in Rome against Alejandro Tabilo. The Serbian will try to give 100% of himself in Paris and will do so alongside his renewed team with Nenad Zimonjic as coach. Meanwhile, his former coach who has accompanied him in recent years was talking about what it means to coach the world number 1.
In words collected by the newspaper Blick, Goran Ivanisevic He made it clear once again how difficult his job was, because guiding someone who has won everything comes with extra pressure. Even so, the Croatian acknowledged that there is more positive than negative in that imaginary balance: “When you coach Novak Djokovic, anything short of winning a title is a failure in any tournament. It’s a lot of pressure, Novak is very demanding, he always wants to improve. And if you can’t handle that, you might as well not take the job. The language helped me a lot, because then there was no barrier between us. With Novak you only have a few seconds to explain something to him, he wants to know fifteen things at once, but you only have three seconds to do it. That’s why you have to try to summarize everything. That can be difficult, but with Novak I enjoyed it”.
Something we often ask ourselves is what weaknesses one of the best athletes of all time may have and, for someone who was his coach, that is also a somewhat complicated question to answer. However, his critical eye knows perfectly well that not even the best in the world is perfect. “It is very difficult to point out their weaknesses. Is it a weakness if you miss a shot after 25 rallies? But that’s what we’ve done, we worked a lot on his serve, especially his second serve. We also worked on his positional play at the net and his volleys. At this high level, it’s all about the details. The same thing happens to all elite players and yet they are all different. “Federer always seemed completely relaxed in training and Nadal trains so intensely that you have the feeling that 300 lions are chasing him,” He said.
The disputes between Novak and his box in the middle of the match
On the other hand, and speaking of pressure, Ivanisevic wanted to take away the issue that has always haunted them: the constant arguments between him and his team during their matches. Thus, taking as an example a specific situation that they experienced during a meeting, Goran justified his former pupil by confessing that this is a way of letting off steam: “That happened over and over again. Then he yelled at me again and everyone saw it. Sometimes I could understand him well, but other times I couldn’t. Maybe he wanted to know something about the service and I told him something about the clouds there were. Then Novak got mad at me, but at least it was about me. After five minutes he calmed down again, he was able to let off steam and play freely. Sometimes in tennis you need a little shock to reset your head. “I think the mental component is the most important factor in this sport.”.
2024-05-15 17:32:01
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