Jimmy Connors serves up a bold Novak Djokovic US Open prediction<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI was in Wimbledon, I played the final, and that final broke me. It crushed me because I truly believe I was the better player, I played better, I should have won, and I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom that moment on, everything started going downhill.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Ivanisevic chose his five-set loss to Andre Agassi in the 1992 Wimbledon final as the one match he wishes he could play again.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u201992 [Wimbledon final] because if I had won that final I think everything would have opened up for me,\u201d the Croatian explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would have given me more strength, more confidence and I would have been a better player. I believe I would have reached another Grand Slam, maybe I would have even made world number one.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u201992 still stings, that Wimbledon final, I was the absolute favourite.\u00a0I had beaten [Ivan] Lendl, [Stefan] Edberg and Sampras and then I lost in five sets to Agassi.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one thought I would lose, not even me, but now, thanks to social media, you can go back and watch those matches, so I watched them back, and honestly, he deserved to win that day. He played better.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like I didn\u2019t believe in myself that day, I didn\u2019t play the way that I should have at that level. That is the Wimbledon final, it\u2019s like the World Cup final; you have to bring your best; otherwise, the other guy will.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, Ivanisevic won his only Grand Slam title in fairytale fashion as a 125th-ranked wildcard.<\/p>\n
Ivanisevic coached Novak Djokovic between 2019 and 2024 and helped the great Serbian win nine of his 24 Grand Slam titles. He coached compatriot Marin Cilic to the 2014 US Open title, while he has also worked with Elena Rybakina, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Milos Raonic and Tomas Berdych.<\/p>\n
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