{"id":16198,"date":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16198\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","slug":"what-jannik-sinners-coach-said-about-novak-djokovic-in-2008-when-roger-federer-felt-disrespected-by-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16198\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jannik Sinner’s coach said about Novak Djokovic in 2008 when Roger Federer felt disrespected by him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner still has a long way to go to catch greats such as Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, but he is certainly going about things the right way.<\/p>\n

ATP<\/a> number one Sinner<\/a> is now a four-time Grand Slam champion, having just clinched his maiden Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n

But it is Federer<\/a> who remains top of the pile for titles at the All England Club, with his eight keeping him one ahead of the seven of Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner defeated Djokovic<\/a> in the semifinals of Wimbledon this year en route to the trophy, with Carlos Alcaraz beaten in the final.<\/p>\n

John Isner thinks prime Federer would beat Sinner<\/a>, but that is unfortunately a match-up that tennis fans will never get to see.<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesHow Roger Federer once felt disrespected by Novak Djokovic<\/p>\n

Instead, fans can simply appreciate the pair for their phenomenal efforts on the court, along with those of fellow icon Djokovic.<\/p>\n

The Serbian was indeed discussed by Sinner\u2019s current coach Darren Cahill<\/a> all the way back in 2008, who said on ESPN<\/a>: \u201cI do think that Djokovic made one of those starts where he came onto the tour as a young kid and made the quarterfinals here [at the French Open] a couple of years ago and then defaulted to [Rafael] Nadal.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach said to him straight after he lost the first set of the Wimbledon final to Carlos Alcaraz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has always had quite a few injury concerns and pulled out of a lot of matches, but it\u2019s also what he says in the media as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me I think he has been a great personality. For someone to come out and say I want to be number one in the world one day. He has always had great respect for Federer and Nadal and always says great things about them.<\/p>\n

\"FrenchPhoto by Tim Clayton via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even in Australia a couple of years ago and he had to play Roger in the fourth round and someone in the media asked him how he was going to go, he said yeah I\u2019m going to beat him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has never had a lack of confidence and I think maybe Federer and Nadal have seen that as a slight show of disrespect. I actually don\u2019t think it is. I think he is a personality and he\u2019s pretty funny. He is quite respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Novak Djokovic may be thinking about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/p>\n

Confidence is undoubtedly a quality needed in order to make it to the very top of any sport, and Djokovic had that in abundance starting out.<\/p>\n

He was fearless, and quickly became a thorn in the side of Federer and Nadal, eventually overtaking them for Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The ATP player most likely to challenge Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz has been named by John Isner<\/a><\/p>\n

TitlesPlayerAustralian OpenFrench OpenWimbledonUS OpenYears24Novak Djokovic103742008\u2013202322Rafael Nadal214242005\u2013202220Roger Federer61852003\u20132018Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer Grand Slam titles<\/p>\n

The Serbian legend sits at the very top of that list, with his 24 triumphs ahead of Nadal\u2019s 22 and Federer\u2019s 20.<\/p>\n

But perhaps his confidence has faded somewhat with the emergence of superstars Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

The tables have now turned for the veteran, who is currently in the backseat as the Italian and the Spaniard take centre stage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It was inevitable that Djokovic would slow down, but perhaps even he didn\u2019t expect Alcaraz and Sinner to be able to take over from the Big Three so rapidly and so effortlessly.<\/p>\n

At the same time, however, it would be foolish to rule Djokovic out of one final Grand Slam success, although it did seem that this year\u2019s Wimbledon was his last real chance to do just that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner still has a long way to go to catch greats such as Novak Djokovic and Roger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,8256,432,433,4037,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-16198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-darren-cahill","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-roger-federer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}