BREAKING NEWS: Novak Djokovic has announced a significant coaching shift

Despite Goran Ivanisevic’s participation, Djokovic has had a challenging start to the season.

The separation between Novak Djokovic and his coach Goran Ivanisevic has been made public.

Throughout his early and mid-30s, Djokovic experienced the most dominating phase of his career thanks to the wildly successful relationship.

Prior to taking over as Djokovic’s primary coach in March 2022, Ivanisevic collaborated with Djokovic’s longtime tutor Marian Vajda for a number of years.

The world number one posted on Instagram that he and Ivanisevic had broken up “a few days ago,” saying, “I remember clearly the moment I invited Goran to be part of my team.” In 2018, Marian and I wanted to experiment and add some magic to our serving together.
We actually brought not just serve but also a ton of joy, laughter, record-breaking feats, year-end no. 1 rankings, and 12 more grand slams (as well as a few finals) to the tally since then. Did I also mention a little drama?

“A few days ago, Goran and I made the decision to part ways professionally. Although there were ups and downs in our on-court chemistry, our friendship remained unwavering.

In fact, I’m glad to report—I’m not sure whether he is—that in addition to winning competitions together, we also engaged in a long-running side conflict in the board game Parchisi. And for us, the competition never ends. I appreciate everything, my friend. I cherish you.

With three grand slam victories and a heartbreaking Wimbledon final loss to Carlos Alcaraz, Djokovic had one of his best seasons ever in 2023. However, the 36-year-old is going through a difficult period right now after splitting from his longtime agents.

After losing to Jannik Sinner in his first Australian Open match since 2018, he unexpectedly fell to Italian Luca Nardi at Indian Wells earlier this month and decided not to compete at the Miami Open.

Working with Djokovic presents problems, but Ivanisevic never backs down from them. After the French Open final the previous year, he said, “Let’s put it this way: He’s not an easy guy.” particularly when things aren’t going his way.