The American teenager has received many messages after this win, including Jessica Pegula reacting to Jovic\u2019s victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite all the comparisons to American players, Jovic\u2019s idol is actually Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jovic has a Serbian father and therefore already has a connection to 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic.<\/p>\n The 17-year-old has spoken about how much she looks up to Djokovic before, and at the most recent US Open<\/a> Jovic revealed that she actually met him at Wimbledon<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n When speaking to Tennis Channel<\/a>, Jovic revealed that former top 10 player and head of USTA Player Development\u2019s women\u2019s program, Kathy Rinaldi, introduced her to Djokovic back at Wimbledon and she noticed something about her idol in the short time they spent together.<\/p>\n \u201cShe will go for it. That\u2019s one thing about Kathy. I love her so much,\u201d said Jovic. \u201cWe were practicing on the indoor courts at Wimbledon and he just walked in to a court close to us. His son was playing, and Kathy was like, \u2018Let\u2019s go up to him right now!\u2019 I was like, \u2018Kathy!\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cHe just wished me luck and told me to keep working. It was kind of just a little bit of an introduction. I met Jelena there too, and his sons were playing. It was just so cool. <\/p>\n \u201cThere was nothing super specific said but just the way he talks, he has a thing about himself where you can tell that he\u2019s great. Not even seeing him on the tennis court, he has that presence, which is super cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Who did Iva Jovic say she preferred out of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner?<\/p>\n Despite Djokovic being her idol, the current top two players on the ATP<\/a> Tour by some way are Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/a>, having won the last eight consecutive Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n Due to his exciting and unpredictable game style, world number one Alcaraz<\/a> is often a crowd favourite, but Jovic actually admitted she preferred watching Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, I\u2019m having such a blast with the Carlos-Sinner rivalry,\u201d Jovic said at the US Open. \u201cI will say Sinner is my favorite. I like watching him play, so I guess he could be my model right now. I\u2019ll take anything that he does!\u201d<\/p>\n Jovic would like to play like Sinner, but she previously told the BNP Paribas Open<\/a> that she also took inspiration from Wimbledon semifinalist Belinda Bencic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe takes the ball so early,\u201d said Jovic. \u201cAnd her footwork is very \u2026 cutting the angles, so she just makes her opponents feel suffocated. That\u2019s what I would like to try to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n After winning the Guadalajara Open, Jovic has now climbed up to world number 36 in the WTA rankings and is the youngest player ranked inside the top 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic is beginning to make a name for herself after winning her first ever WTA title in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,74101,2083,82,593,614,4306],"class_list":{"0":"post-147607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-iva-jovic","12":"tag-novak-djokovic","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-wimbledon","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Iva](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2222347258-1-1024x663.jpg\")
Photo by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesWhat Iva Jovic said it was like to meet Novak Djokovic for the first time<\/p>\n