{"id":286631,"date":"2025-07-24T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286631\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:15:10","slug":"novak-djokovic-dealt-ominous-verdict-as-his-former-coach-makes-another-level-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286631\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic dealt ominous verdict as his\u00a0former coach makes\u00a0&#8216;another level&#8217; comment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic\u2019s former coach Goran\u00a0Ivanisevic has commented on the Serbian\u2019s defeat to Jannik Sinner in the 2025 Wimbledon semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sinner<\/a>, the world No 1, delivered a high-level display to earn a convincing 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Djokovic on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Italian went on to down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in four sets in the championship match to secure his maiden Wimbledon crown.<\/p>\n<p>In his defeat to Sinner, a\u00a0physically compromised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Djokovic<\/a>\u00a0struggled considerably with his movement after a fall in his quarter-final win against Flavio Cobolli.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old tennis legend admitted during the event that Wimbledon was his best chance to add to his record tally of 24 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Croatian media outlet Gol, Ivanisevic made a telling comment about Djokovic\u2019s hopes of challenging Sinner and Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re not 100 percent with Sinner\u2026 and even when you are, your chances aren\u2019t great,\u201d said the 2001 Wimbledon winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought Novak could do it, but unfortunately he wasn\u2019t completely ready.<\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/goran-ivanisevic-stefanos-tsitsipas-criticism-affected-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Goran Ivanisevic makes \u2018inflated ego\u2019 comment after strongly criticising Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/facts-stats\/men-best-win-rate-atp-tour-finals-rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The 7 men with the best win rate in ATP Tour finals: Novak Djokovic on 69.7%, Rafael Nadal 6th<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDjokovic is the greatest tennis player of all time, but what these two (Sinner and Alcaraz) are doing is another level of tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivanisevic, who parted ways with Djokovic in March 2024, has been coaching Stefanos\u00a0Tsitsipas since the beginning of the grass season.<\/p>\n<p>At the Hurlingham Classic last month, Tennis365 asked Tsitsipas if Ivanisevic has passed on any lessons from his time working with Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, yes. We have daily discussions. I wouldn\u2019t say he just has experience with Novak, like it would be unfair to just say with Novak,\u201d said the Greek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Novak is one of the greatest that our game has seen, but he has also worked with other players too, and I think there comes experience too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I feel like it\u2019s important for him that he has worked with different types of players because he gets to really see what works best for me, knowing how these different profiles of players have adapted and have done certain things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he can see more of a variation in his coaching skills and in his coaching expertise and apply that selectively to me in ways that\u2026 obviously, I can\u2019t play exactly like Novak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have certain characteristics in my game that stand out a little bit more and certain [things] that need to get improved and get better over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he can definitely give me a clear direction of where I\u2019m lacking and where I should be focusing on when it comes to my strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-better-tougher-carlos-alcaraz-goran-ivanisevic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz? Novak Djokovic\u2019s ex-coach answers who is \u2018better and tougher\u2019<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic\u2019s former coach Goran\u00a0Ivanisevic has commented on the Serbian\u2019s defeat to Jannik Sinner in the 2025 Wimbledon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286631","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\/114905568055119304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286631","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=286631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}