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<\/p>\n Coaches Corner
\n Ivanisevic on new charge Tsitsipas: \u2018A Top 10 player, any day\u2019<\/p>\n
Croatian joined 12-time Tour champion\u2019s team after Roland Garros<\/p>\n
June 16, 2025<\/p>\n
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Andy West\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Goran Ivanisevic watches Stefanos Tsitsipas during practice on Saturday in Halle.
\n By Andy West<\/p>\n
Goran Ivanisevic<\/a> is more than familiar with the ups and downs of life on the ATP Tour. <\/p>\n A former No. 2 in the PIF ATP Rankings who famously won Wimbledon<\/a> as a wild card after struggles for form and fitness led to him dropping down to No. 125, Ivanisevic now hopes his experience at tennis\u2019 top table can help bring Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> back to the sport\u2019s elite. That remains a group where the Croatian coach firmly believes his new charge belongs. <\/p>\n \u201cHe is for me a Top 10 player any day,\u201d Ivanisevic told ATPTour.com when asked about his excitement at working with Tsitsipas, a former World No. 3 who is now No. 25. \u201cAt the moment he lost that edge a little bit. A lot of things happened and now he has to find it back. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not a magician who can make it work after one week. It\u2019s a long process, but he\u2019s a great player. He was two times in Grand Slam finals and had so many great victories, so I\u2019m not worried that it\u2019s not going to come back.\u201d <\/p>\n You May Also Like: Tsitsipas on hiring Ivanisevic as coach: ‘I’m looking forward to the journey ahead’<\/a><\/p>\n Ivanisevic was speaking after Tsitsipas hit with Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> on Saturday at the Terra Wortmann Open<\/a> in Halle. It was the first practice for Ivanisevic and Tsitsipas together at a tournament \u2014 the Greek travelled to Zagreb for a few days following the start of their partnership after Roland Garros<\/a>. <\/p>\n Tsitsipas, who is a 12-time ATP Tour champion, starts against Luciano Darderi<\/a> on Monday at the German ATP 500, where the 26-year-old will look to rejuvenate a patchy 2025 season so far. Tsitsipas is 18-11 for the year, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, a tally highlighted by a title in Dubai. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to me because of his temperament,\u201d said Ivanisevic, when asked what attracted him to work with Tsitsipas. \u201cGreek, Croatian are pretty similar temperaments. He\u2019s a very aggressive player, which I like. I always liked the way he played, and his style. It\u2019s nice to see, and nice to put some input into his game, as a server, as a serve and volleyer. For me it\u2019s actually a huge challenge and hopefully it\u2019s going to work well.\u201d <\/p>\n Tsitsipas could hardly have added a more experienced grass-court head to his camp ahead of Halle. As well as his 2001 Wimbledon<\/a> title run, Ivanisevic also reached the final at SW19 on three other occasions, while he coached Novak Djokovic<\/a> to three of his seven titles at the grass-court major. <\/p>\n Tsitsipas will hope Ivanisevic\u2019s presence can help him bolster his grass-court record, which stands at a moderate 22-17 but does include a title won in Mallorca in 2022. While it is statistically the Greek\u2019s least successful surface, Ivanisevic sees no reason why a player renowned for his big serve and punishing first-strike tennis cannot succeed on the grass. <\/p>\n \u201cThere is a lot to work with,\u201d he said, when asked about Tsitsipas\u2019 potential on the surface. \u201cGenerally, he doesn\u2019t have good results on grass. I don\u2019t know why. It\u2019s only [mental]. If you put in your head, \u2018I cannot play on grass\u2019, then you cannot play well, because grass doesn\u2019t forgive you anything. If you get pissed on grass, the grass gives you it back. You have to be nice to the grass. <\/p>\n \u201cSo there\u2019s lots of room to improve there. I can\u2019t say it will happen this week for sure, but generally he can play well on grass.\u201d <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coaches Corner Ivanisevic on new charge Tsitsipas: \u2018A Top 10 player, any day\u2019 Croatian joined 12-time Tour champion\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114691776521830687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750057509_967_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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