“We used to go out for dinners” Goran Ivanisevic blames social media for tainted relationship between players on Tour
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Goran Ivanisevic
Goran Ivanisevic is a former Croatian professional tennis player and current coach of the 21-time Grand slam winner, Novak Djokovic. He is the only player to win a Wimbledon singles title as a wildcard in 2001 while he was ranked at world No. 125, after being runner-up at Wimbledon in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanisevic’s career-high singles ranking was world No. 2.
The Croatian had a win-loss record of 599-333 with overall 22 career titles in the singles category and 9 titles in doubles. In his coaching career, the 50-year-old has won a total no. of 7 grand slams out of which 6 have come after getting linked with Novak and one before with Marin Cilic. He coached Marin Cilic from September 2013 to July 2016, leading Cilic to his only major title to date at the 2014 US Open. He has been coaching Novak Djokovic since 2019. Ivanisevic was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2020.
Goran Ivanisevic: “There’s a lot of media, agents, too much internet”
In a recent interview with La Repubblica, Ivanisevic talked about several things like including being hopeful that Novak will get a special visa for the US Open starting this month, he also talked about the fundamental differences between current players and the players of his generation, and also about the impact of social media and internet on tennis players.
He said, “There are essential differences between each generation. In my time, players were friends. We often went out together, to dinners, in groups. Today it’s not like that anymore, the players only greet each other on the field, rarely when they are together outside. There is no relationship between them. There’s a lot of media, agents, too much internet.”
Ivanisevic’s statements are somewhat right because we do not see opponents having time together outside the field. Some players do not even use social media in fear that it will distract them from focusing. After splitting with Cilic in 2016, Goran started coaching Tomas Berdych from 2016-2017 and then Milos Raonic from 2018-19 before he finally joined Djokovic.
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