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\n Fils working with \u2018hell of a champion\u2019 Ivanisevic<\/p>\n
Former Wimbledon champion Ivanisevic is with Fils in Doha<\/p>\n
February 18, 2026<\/p>\n
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Qatar Tennis<\/p>\n
Arthur Fils in action on Wednesday at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Arthur Fils<\/a> is taking advice from a man with plenty of big-stage experience in his bid to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2025 season. <\/p>\n The 21-year-old Frenchman confirmed on Wednesday that he is working with former No. 2 and 2001 Wimbledon<\/a> champion Goran Ivanisevic<\/a>. Fils, who was speaking after his 6-1, 7-6(7) second-round victory against Quentin Halys<\/a> at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open<\/a> in Doha, was full of praise for a man who also coached Novak Djokovic<\/a> from 2018 to 2024. <\/p>\n \u201cHell of a champion, winner of a Slam, and he coached a lot of guys, a lot of champions actually,\u201d Fils told ATP Media. \u201cHe\u2019s helping me during the season. We are going to try [it out], but I think it\u2019s good for me. It\u2019s maybe the best for me to have his experience as a coach and as a player. So very, very happy that he joined us during this long journey.\u201d <\/p>\n You May Also Like: Fils reflects on long road back: ‘It was very mental’<\/a><\/p>\n After hitting his career high of No. 14 in the PIF ATP Rankings in April last year, Fils sustained a stress fracture in his back at Roland Garros<\/a> in late May. He competed at just one more event, the National Bank Open Presented by Rogers in Toronto in early August, for the rest of the year. <\/p>\n Yet after returning to action at the ATP 250 in Montpellier earlier this month, he is now into his second quarter-final of 2026 in Doha. Alongside Ivanisevic, he will on Thursday attempt to navigate a way past Jiri Lehecka<\/a> to reach the semi-finals at the hard-cout ATP 500. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Fils working with \u2018hell of a champion\u2019 Ivanisevic Former Wimbledon champion Ivanisevic is with Fils in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-477337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477337","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=477337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}