{"id":515530,"date":"2025-10-20T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:09:13","slug":"what-novak-djokovic-said-about-frances-tiafoes-new-coach-after-splitting-with-him-back-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515530\/","title":{"rendered":"What Novak Djokovic said about Frances Tiafoe’s new coach after splitting with him back in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frances Tiafoe will be working with a two-time Grand Slam finalist as his coach from the 2026 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiafoe caused concern after losing his last five matches<\/a>, with the American not living up to the expectations he has created for himself as a former top 10 player.<\/p>\n

The two-time US Open<\/a> semifinalist then made a big decision, as Tiafoe decided to end his season early<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was not the only big decision he has made, with Tiafoe also parting ways with his entire team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"FrancesPhoto by MANAN VATSYAYANA\/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat Novak Djokovic said about Todd Martin after parting ways with him in 2010<\/p>\n

After Tiafoe<\/a> parted ways with his coaching team, it has since been confirmed that he will now be working with former world number four Todd Martin.<\/p>\n

This will not be Martin\u2019s first experience coaching a player, as he has previously worked with Mardy Fish<\/a> and none other than Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ToddPhoto by Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images for International Tennis Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

Martin joined Djokovic\u2019s coaching team when he had won just one Grand Slam title at the time in August 2009.<\/p>\n

However, their coaching relationship was short-lived, with Martin departing from Djokovic\u2019s team just eight months later.<\/p>\n

Although this was not a long-term situation, Martin was still part of Djokovic\u2019s team when he won five titles including the 2009 Paris Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The split also appeared to be amicable, with Djokovic full of praise for Martin when speaking to FoxNews<\/a> about the reason why they parted ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cTodd is a fantastic person,\u201d\u00a0Djokovic said at the time. \u201cHe has so much experience and was willing to share everything with me. There are no hard feelings but we just decided it was not working. It was probably a question of understanding what kind of person I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reputation Todd Martin gained as a tennis player that James Blake joked made him want to \u2018vomit\u2019<\/p>\n

It appears that it is not only Djokovic who views Martin as a good person, as that was also a reputation he gained for himself as a player.<\/p>\n

So much so that former world number four James Blake and Martin\u2019s compatriot once joked that it made him and other players feel unwell.<\/p>\n

\"ToddPhoto By Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cJustin [Gimelstob] said to Todd, `I\u2019m tired of you getting these I\u2019m the Greatest Guy in the World awards,’\u201d Blake joked. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes us vomit to see how many he gets, but they\u2019re well-deserved. Just being a nice guy in a sport that\u2019s inherently selfish is impressive, and that\u2019s something I\u2019ve looked up to even when I was a kid. I said long ago that I\u2019d love to be someone like Todd.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if they don\u2019t get to be the best in the world, they\u2019re looked upon as being a nice guy, and I don\u2019t think anyone will ever argue that point about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiafoe is a player who appears to thrive off positivity, and he will be hoping that Martin can bring that out of him when they join forces for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Frances Tiafoe will be working with a two-time Grand Slam finalist as his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,29384,4295,79,1068,168316,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-515530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-frances-tiafoe","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-todd-martin","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115409018503204427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515530","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=515530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}