Novak Djokovic will head into the French Open with a revamped coaching setup, with Viktor Troicki stepping in as head coach, the 24-time Grand Slam champion confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Reports had speculated that Troicki<\/a> was his new coach as he was seen alongside Djokovic<\/a> during a Tuesday practice session at Roland Garros, where the Serb trained with Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n The move comes after Troicki helped guide the former world number one to Olympic gold in 2024.<\/p>\n “Welcome my friend, teammate and now coach… Viktor Troicki,” Djokovic wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n A former world number 12 and Serbia’s Davis Cup captain, Troicki was part of Djokovic’s coaching team at the 2024 Olympics, where the Serb won a historic gold medal in Paris.<\/p>\n Djokovic and Troicki are long-time friends dating back to childhood.<\/p>\n Djokovic, who turns 39 on Friday, is set for his 22nd appearance at the French Open, which he has won three times.<\/p>\n However, he has played just three tournaments this year and lost his only match on clay at the Italian Open in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic will head into the French Open with a revamped coaching setup, with Viktor Troicki stepping in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-683481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683481","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=683481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}