Goran Ivanisevic, Novak Djokovic‘s coach, has as soon as once more mentioned what it is prefer to work with the ATP No. 1 and he doesn’t hesitate to reward his pupil’s skill to enhance daily and the way difficult it’s to take care of him when he’s dropping a match.
Djokovic skilled his most up-to-date loss to the arms of the Italian Jannik Sinner within the Davis Cup on November 25 and dropping is one thing that the Serbian by no means takes notably nicely, actually, he’s identified for getting “second wind” in video games he’s dealing with defeat to rally again and to win and Ivanisevic understands his anger.
“Who am I to get offended with him? He’s one of the best participant within the historical past of tennis,” Ivanisevic mentioned to We Are Tennis. “Generally I can solely get mad at him when he yells at us for no purpose. When he loses a match, he all the time offers his greatest and tries his greatest. But it surely’s not simple to take care of him when he is dropping.
“Tuesday evening on the ATP Finals he completed late. On Wednesday we did not see him. To be trustworthy, till Thursday we did not know what was occurring. We had been within the room. We did not know if we had been going dwelling or if we had been going to the warm-up in opposition to [Hubert] Hurkacz. We lastly came upon that he was going to play.
“I believe he made a superb choice to remain calm. I do know it isn’t simple to get motivated. He gained all the things. He completed within the No. 1 spot. However he all the time finds motivation. He all the time desires extra. He desires one thing higher on a regular basis.
“He chained us with handcuffs for 3 days. He is not a simple man, let’s put it this fashion. Particularly when one thing would not go his manner. He was torturing us, pulling out our fingernails and lots of extra issues however that I am unable to say. However we’re nonetheless right here, we’re alive. I’m an previous man and I have to be cautious with my coronary heart. We’re right here to make it really feel higher and to carry out higher. Generally it’s totally difficult.”
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Ivanisevic knew his shopper would win the ATPs
Ivanisevic confesses that when Sinner beat Holger Rune, which gave Novak entry to the semifinals of the ATP Finals, he had little question that Djokovic would take the title, and he did by defeating his rival 6-3 and 6-3 to assert the championship in straight units.
“From that second on I knew Novak was going to win the match. When the actual Novak Djokovic hits the courtroom, then nobody can play with him.”
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Ivanisevic pulls comparability to speak about Djokovic’s day-to-day life in tennis by evaluating the legendary participant to a enterprise proprietor searching for to squeeze each final potential efficiency out of the corporate he controls.
By doing so, he brings down the superhuman expertise of the Serbian to a extra comprehensible degree for bizarre individuals who have by no means skilled the high-pressure and excessive calls for {of professional} sports activities.
” analogy could be to call Novak Djokovic as a CEO of an organization,” Ivanisevic mentioned. “He seeks and calls for earnings. These earnings distinguish him from others. Like losses in an organization, if he loses, he loses market share, leading to a drop within the rankings. Nole, like every elite participant, finds this too tough to deal with.”
“It is vitally tough, however he desires to enhance. That is the nice and the dangerous for me as a coach and for the remainder of the crew. I believe he improved loads his volleys, his sport and place on the internet. Now when he will get to the web basically and this yr, he hits some unbelievable volleys.
“It’s extremely tough to go to him, earlier than it was very simple. He feels snug on the internet. Within the US Open last he performed two or three of an important volleys within the last in opposition to Medvedev. He is not afraid to go to the web. He is hitting his forehands a lot more durable. On serve, I believe on the second serve, he is generally over 200kph. He is simply going for it.”
