All started for almost two decades before their official cooperation. They met at the beginning of the 2000s at the Tennis Academy of Nikola Pilic, when 14-year-old Novak Djokovic brought a snack Goran Ivanišević, then the fresh winner of Wimbledon.
Nobody couldn’t dream of that the meeting would be overturned in a historical partnership then.
Professional collaboration began only in 2018.when Djokovic called Ivanišević to join his team.
I remember the clear moment I called Goran. Marijan Vajda and I We demanded a way to innovate and make some magic service in our duoGiokovic Motives explained, who launched an avalanche of success.
The goal was clear: convert Đoković’s service to the devastating weapon.
Ivanišević, whose service was legendary, has fully managed, Raising the average speed of Djokovic’s first service on over 193 km / h. But they brought, how Djokovic said, “both of laughs, entertainment, records and 12 more Grand Slam titles.”
Ivanišević, after the long-term Marijan Vajda coach left the team in 2022, became the main coach, taking all responsibility. Their collaboration was all just not calm; Scenes of Brawls and Djokovic’s monologues directed towards Goran’s lodge became common, which Ivanišević attributed to their “Balkan mentality.”
The job described as turbulent and extremely stressful.
He keeps you under constant tension. It’s not easy guy, especially when something doesn’t go. But we are here to plant back and receive punches, The Croatian great, comparing the pressure of Djokovic’s coaching of Real Madrid, compared.
Successes have brought and a huge financial reward. It is estimated that Ivanišević’s annual salary amounted to between 300,000 and 500,000 euros, With the usual bonuses of about 10 percent of the players’ rewards on tournaments, which is in the six-year cooperation brought millions of earnings.
The end followed Djokovic’s bad start last season, marked by defeat from Jannik Sinner in Australia and a shocking outage in Indian Wells. Ivanišević admitted that he felt a saturation and tired of the US Open 2023.
The material fatigue has occurred, We are simply fed up with, He explained. Djokovic seems to be, in an eternal search for new motivation, he felt the need to change.
Although their chemistry was in the field “ups and downs”, Djokovic pointed out that a friendship is “firm as a rock” And that their tournament in the social game man is not angry never interrupts.
I’m eternally grateful to Novak, he handed me the opportunity, and I used it. The results speak for themselves, They are written black on whiteconcluded Ivanišević, putting a point on Five historical years in the world of tenniswrites Večernji list.
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