{"id":85399,"date":"2025-08-22T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:25:09","slug":"goran-ivanisevic-says-whether-he-thinks-stefanos-tsitsipas-will-ever-make-it-back-into-the-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85399\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran Ivanisevic says whether he thinks Stefanos Tsitsipas will ever make it back into the top ten\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Goran Ivanisevic is one of tennis\u2019 most decorated coaches of all time, having spent the bulk of his career post-retirement alongside Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

So, when he eventually split with the Serbian and looked for new pastures, it was thought that whoever secured his services would be guaranteed to enjoy some form of success.<\/p>\n

Alas, Stefanos Tsitsipas did not, and instead seemingly struggled to adapt to the no-nonsense approach taken by the Croatian.<\/p>\n

This culminated in a rather high-profile interview from Ivanisevic, where he blasted his player, claiming: \u201cI have never seen a more unfit player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, at long last this legendary coach has broken his silence, making a prediction about Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>\u2019 future after those bold claims.<\/p>\n

Goran Ivanisevic breaks silence after Stefanos Tsitsipas comments<\/p>\n

Speaking on the First and Red YouTube channel, attention was inevitably going to turn to the Tsitsipas controversy.<\/p>\n

After all, it has been one of the most intriguing stories of the year thus far, coinciding with the 27-year-old\u2019s struggles and steady decline.<\/p>\n

Justifying his words, he admitted: \u201cI think the press made it more harsh than it is. I don\u2019t think I said something spectacularly bad. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t say that he is a bad player. I didn\u2019t say he\u2019s ugly. I didn\u2019t say that he cannot play tennis. I didn\u2019t say he will never win the tournament again. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said that he\u2019s an unbelievable player. I said he will be top 10. He played three years ago, he played the final of a Grand Slam. I just said that a player who is unfit mentally and physically, like he is at the moment, you don\u2019t play tennis then.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, before then issuing a prediction about Tsitsipas: \u201cIt\u2019s better to be fair to yourself and everybody else, and just don\u2019t play, because you cannot come on the court physically, mentally, unfit, and thinking you\u2019re gonna win the matches, you need to practice. And then you need to win the matches. And especially in Wimbledon, that is not easy, and he has a problem with the back. He needs to solve that problem. And changing the racket three days before the Halle tournament, trying the new racket. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis, I mean, so many things, like I said, that he\u2019s unfit. The faster he goes, he will go back to where he belongs. Top 10, even better, because he\u2019s too good a player to be at that position that he is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did the tennis world react to Goran Ivanisevic\u2019s comments about Stefanos Tsitsipas?<\/p>\n

Naturally, Ivanisevic\u2019s scathing assessment of Tsitsipas was a very polarising moment.<\/p>\n

For some, it was a valid criticism that needed to be levelled at a player desperately in need of a fresh perspective and a different coaching technique.<\/p>\n

However, others argued that a coach should never speak about a player so publicly, and thus, it drew great criticism.<\/p>\n

\"StefanosPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios reacted to Ivanisevic\u2019s comments about Tsitsipas<\/a>, branding it \u2018brutal\u2019, whilst Patrick Mouratoglou also criticised the claim.<\/p>\n

Jim Courier was so stunned he even thought it was a joke, suggesting: \u201cMaybe I\u2019m completely wrong. Maybe he said what he meant there, but it just doesn\u2019t seem. I know Goran forever. But this just is out of character for him. He\u2019s more savvy than this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goran Ivanisevic is one of tennis\u2019 most decorated coaches of all time, having spent the bulk of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[9979,101,9978,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-85399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-goran-ivanisevic","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}