By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday November 5, 2024
Goran Ivanisevic, the brand new coach of Elena Rybakina, had a number of presents come his manner after he parted methods with Novak Djokovic earlier this season. The previous Wimbledon champion settled on the one he discovered essentially the most thrilling – an opportunity to take Rybakina’s sport to the subsequent stage.
In an interview with Sasa Ozmo of Tennis Majors, the Croatian legend defined his reasoning.
“There have been another presents, however I feel I selected the suitable one for me – due to Elena’s enjoying fashion and potential, but in addition due to her persona. Elena is calm and I can’t wait to get going. I feel it’s going to be nice,” he stated.
After a five-year partnership with Djokovic that noticed the Serbian legend go to the highest of the Grand Slam males’s singles titles totem pole, Ivanisevic says he’s desirous to go down a unique path. Rybakina, a 25-year-old from Kazakhstan who received the Wimbledon title in 2022, has the potential to win extra majors, he says.
“I do know that many individuals discovered it odd and that individuals have been shocked by our collaboration, however not me,” Ivanisevic advised Tennis Majors. “I wanted a U-turn after Novak. I received all the things with Novak, so I’m extraordinarily trying ahead to this new problem. Actually, throughout my time on the ATP Tour, I by no means pictured myself on the ladies’s tour, however I don’t see myself in males’s tennis in the mean time.”
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Ivanisevic says he’ll use the low season to get to know Rybakina. He believes that there’s loads of room for development in her sport.
“I don’t know her too properly personally, however my good friend Zule is her health coach,” he stated. We labored along with Tomas Berdych – and the phrase across the Tour usually is that she is a good particular person. Sport-wise, she has acquired an enormous serve, tall, sturdy hitter who performs aggressively, she received Wimbledon identical to me.
“I really feel I can train her one thing. I imply, she is already No 5 on this planet, however I feel she will be able to win extra Slams, that’s for certain.”
