The Serbian Novak Djokovic, 36 years old, went to the chair, placed the rackets resting on it so that he could apply force with his foot and break them. That was the way to vent the frustration of having wasted a break up in the third set against the Dane. Holger Runein his first match at the ATP Finals in Turin 2023.
‘No’ who acts as orchestra director to further excite the Italian public, inviting them to continue their boos at the match they lost against the local tennis player Jannik Sinner.
The world number one, yelling at his technical team, showing his displeasure with some indication without also saving any chaos.
Chair umpires are not excused. Yes Djokovic You need to release tension or boost your motivation, you find enemies where there are none. But he is looking for any path that will lead him to his goal of winning and achieving more records, such as his seventh ATP Finals in Turin.
Its continuation was in suspense for some time, but Jannik Sinner did not think about his elimination, and mathematically put him in the semifinals, lose Holger Rune in the last game of the Green Group.
After five days, Djokovic destroyed sinful Eventually. The transalpine knew the danger he was running by ‘catching’ the Serbian, everyone’s number one enemy because of experience and potential. He certainly does not know to what extent his victory against him has also helped transform Balkan, who has gained the strength to regain his best version, which he showed at the weekend.
And the Croatian Goran Ivanisevichead coach of Novak Djokovic, discovered an unknown episode of his student. It was known that on Wednesday, after falling in Jannik Sinner, he didn’t train. Unbeknownst to him he was not on his team’s radar, missing, for more than a day.
“It’s not easy to face him when he loses,” Ivanisevic recalled. But this time the situation was different. “Tuesday night ended late. On Wednesday we didn’t see him all day. We didn’t know what is happening until Thursday. We were (with the team) in the locker room and we didn’t know if we would have. to go home or if we have to do warm-up training because I’m playing Hurkacz. We were sitting, waiting, and finally we discovered that he was going to play,” he said with a smile.
His environment is understandable, “because, like every person, he has his own fight with himself. We were patient with him. In fact, I have my family and we went shopping that Wednesday. Who am I to be angry to Novak? He is the best of history. I just get angry when he yells at us for no reason,” he explained Ivanisevic.
“Yes, it’s not easy, not easy at all. That’s life. He’s number one and always wants more, to improve all the time,” the coach added. “Of course, he changed when he qualified for the semifinals. On Saturday I saw in his eyes, how he approached the locker room, how he trained. In the first point against Alcaraz, his fist was already raised. In the eyes you can see his change in mentality “I was going for the tournament. And when the real Djokovic is on the court, at that moment no one can play with him,” he concluded. Goran Ivanisevic.
Source: La Verdad
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