Stefanos Tsitsipas has revealed he believes his serve can improve by \u201c10 to 15\u00a0percent better\u201d as he expressed excitement about learning from coach Goran Ivanisevic.<\/p>\n
Ivanisevic, who won Wimbledon in 2001 and was also a three-time runner-up at the All England Club, is considered one of the greatest servers in tennis history.<\/p>\n
The Croatian helped big-serving compatriot Marin Cilic reach his peak and guided him to his only Grand Slam title at the 2014 US Open.<\/p>\n
The former world No 2 has also been credited with helping Novak Djokovic turn his serve into a significant weapon during his hugely successful five-year collaboration with the great Serb.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas<\/a>, a former world No 3 currently ranked 26th, hired Ivanisevic as his new coach at the start of the grass-court season<\/p>\n After losing the first two sets of his opening round match at Wimbledon to Valentin Royer, Tsitsipas was forced to retire due to a back injury.<\/p>\n At the Giorgio Armani Classic at Hurlingham, Tennis365 asked Tsitsipas if Ivanisevic was looking to tweak his service motion and ball toss as he did with players like Cilic and Djokovic.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, we\u2019ve been discussing,\u201d Tsitsipas said.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve had hours and hours of discussion about this. Yeah, absolutely. This is something that\u2019s important. I think my serve can improve and get even better of what it is now.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are talking all kinds of scenarios. We are trying to get into the fundamentals of a serve, the technical aspects of a serve, what creates a good serve and what doesn\u2019t create a good serve, and the things that I need to avoid.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, it\u2019s quite obvious that one of the things that I\u2019ve been dealing with in the last couple of years is my consistency in my toss, and I\u2019m aware of that and I\u2019m always trying to fix that, even before Goran step in. But this is definitely something that I\u2019m gonna try and focus on even more.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like my serve deserves 10 to 15 percent better of what it is at its current state. So, I\u2019m currently working with one of the best servers that tennis has ever seen. And if he can\u2019t help me, probably no one can help me.<\/p>\n Stefanos Tsitsipas admits \u2018there is no point competing\u2019 if injury nightmare persists after Wimbledon blow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Stefanos Tsitsipas reveals \u2018strict\u2019 Goran Ivanisevic \u2018gets personal\u2019 with him: \u2018Any other player would freak out\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m just excited for the opportunity to learn as much as I can from him and learn what makes a great server.\u201d<\/p>\n Tsitsipas also addressed whether there is a pressure that comes with being coached by someone who has worked with Djokovic.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the best thing that Goran has kind of stated and made clear is that he\u2019s not coaching Novak Djokovic right now, and we are kind of starting from scratch,\u201d said the\u00a026-year-old Greek.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s coaching me in a way as if I just started playing tennis, which is a great thing because it\u2019s very down-to-earth, and a very humbling experience as a player to get to experience that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have obviously big goals and aspirations and we want to achieve great things together, but we are kind of building from zero. That\u2019s how it feels like.<\/p>\n \u201cHe appreciates me and respects me as a player, and I can see that in his eyes and the way he talks to me. But also, what\u2019s humbling about it is that we have both this mutual respect about each other and we know that we are here on this journey to build and start from scratch.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no expectations, obviously he doesn\u2019t expect me to \u2014 I imagine \u2014 from tomorrow, to start winning Grand Slams, one after the other, like Novak did for, I don\u2019t know, six years of his career on the tour with him.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s just put it this way, every small success that I manage to achieve with him, it doesn\u2019t have to be a huge success, every small success is a huge success, which, if replicated multiple times, starts becoming the standard, if that makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa fuel rumours they have split after painful Wimbledon exits<\/a> The post \u2018If Goran Ivanisevic can\u2019t help me, probably no one can\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas on key area of his game<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stefanos Tsitsipas has revealed he believes his serve can improve by \u201c10 to 15\u00a0percent better\u201d as he expressed excitement about learning from coach Goran Ivanisevic. 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