{"id":531019,"date":"2025-10-27T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/531019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:50:21","slug":"coco-gauff-told-what-she-does-better-than-novak-djokovic-after-copying-serb-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/531019\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff told what she does better than Novak Djokovic after copying Serb | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martina Navratilova ran the rule over the contenders for silverware at the WTA Finals during an interview with the WTA Tour website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And turning her attention to Gauff, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion explained: \u201cShe\u2019s played nine hard-court finals and won them all. That\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of those was last year in Riyadh, so look out if she gets rolling again. Her backhand is like Djokovic\u2019s – maybe with even more power. It\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, Gauff teamed up with biomechanics specialist Gavin MacMillan<\/a>, who was credited with solving Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s serving issues.<\/p>\n

Gauff, who won her first Grand Slam at the US Open in 2023, has been hampered by her serve in recent seasons and has been guilty of throwing in too many double faults at crucial moments.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, himself, developed his serve under the guidance of a string of coaches as his career progressed, with his link-up with Goran Ivanisevic in 2019 especially facilitating a significant improvement when it came to that part of the Serbian\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Gauff will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Djokovic<\/a> as her partnership with MacMillan matures.<\/p>\n

And discussing her new coaching arrangement, Gauff told The National: \u201cI feel like with my serve, there have been a lot of comments and opinions, and things that I’ve tried and it just didn’t help. I’m a very logic-based person and I felt like this was the best thing to make it logical for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking at Novak and he’s someone who didn’t have as great of a serve in the beginning of his career, obviously different issue than me, but he just wasn’t serving as strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he made that change and has gone on to obviously be Novak Djokovic<\/a>. And even at that time, he was still like a successful player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Navratilova said of Gauff: \u201cWhen the serve is happening, it\u2019s a real weapon, and I\u2019m glad she\u2019s figuring that out. Her movement is better than anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova ran the rule over the contenders for silverware at the WTA Finals during an interview with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[172079,6740,4295,172078,79,1068,31635,16,15,172080],"class_list":{"0":"post-531019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-backhand","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-serve","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-section","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wta-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115445984419857454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531019","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=531019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}