The other key point about playing on grass was that he needed to serve better, because that saves you a lot of heartache. He simplified his serve at that stage. It had been a bit of a messy action when he was younger, but now it is so reliable that he can bank on it whenever he comes under pressure.<\/p>\n
If anything, there were moments during our time together when Novak was too technical. As a coach, I had to remind him not to overthink his shots, because tennis requires quick movements and almost instantaneous reactions to the ball. If you\u2019re thinking too much about your technique, you\u2019ll be late with your shot.<\/p>\n
He soon understood everything we worked on and took it into his game. This is what the great players do: they evolve. And Novak, as his record proves, is the greatest of all time. He has incredible IQ, both in his tennis and across his life in general. Here is a man who can talk in six or seven languages about business, about politics, about science. His personal icon is Nikola Tesla. Which other sportsman or woman has such a hero?<\/p>\n
The way Novak improved his serve is similar to what Jannik Sinner has done in the last year or so. Again, Sinner is a very intelligent player, and with a smart coach in Darren Cahill, he understands the value of a serve that earns a lot of free points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other key point about playing on grass was that he needed to serve better, because that saves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2657,295,219,139,113,28,776],"class_list":["post-32324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-novak-djokovic","tag-boris-becker","tag-comment","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sport","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}