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<\/p>\nIva Jovic may have lost her quarter-final against world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, but her name is on everyone\u2019s lips at the Open.<\/p>\n
The impressive American teenager has a fan in tennis legend Novak Djokovic, among others.<\/p>\n
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Iva Jovic\u2019s star is on the rise in world tennis.Credit: Penny Stephens<\/p>\n
After earlier exchanging messages with the fellow player of Serbian background, as we reported in this blog, the 10-time AO champion texted Jovic again with tips, she told reporters after losing to Sabalenka earlier today.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ve been in communication and I feel like we\u2019ve built a little bit of a relationship now, which is amazing, and I wish him all the best for the rest of the tournament, and hopefully throughout the year I can keep having more moments with him and encouragement because it\u2019s been amazing,\u201d Jovic said.<\/p>\n
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She said she had tried to learn from Djokovic\u2019s playing style.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was Andre Agassi who made the comparison of Novak to a boxer and the way that he\u2019s going in for punches and then taking them out a little bit,\u201d Jovic said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the way that he approaches the match is very impressive, and hopefully one day I can emulate that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking at a separate press conference in Serbian later, Jovic said she was planning to rest at home in California for the next little while before heading back on tour, to the Middle East and the tournaments in the US.<\/p>\n
But first, she\u2019d like to take a cruise along the Yarra with her sister, who arrived in Melbourne yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were meant to do that on Sunday, but I kept on winning,\u201d Jovic quipped.<\/p>\n
The teenager said she was chuffed to have received high praise from the likes of Djokovic, Sabalenka and other tennis greats, but that it was also nice to hear from non-tennis people who were kind and honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic may have lost her quarter-final against world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, but her name is on everyone\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-440082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}