Ivanisevic for B92.net: If anyone can beat Rafa in Paris, it's Novak

Cooperation between the former number two and the Wimbledon champion, with the winner of 18 Grand Slam titles, has yielded great results, especially with certain corrections in Novak's service, but Ivanisevic, Novak and Marjan Vajda, and other members of Djokovic's team are in for another week of great fight at Roland Garros.
Goran and Novak, who spent the week before the tournament in Belgrade, were joined these days by Marjan Vajda and they will jointly try to reach a common goal on the famous Paris clay, the 19th Grand Slam title for Novak, the second one in the Bois de Boulogne.
In an interview with B92.net, Ivanisevic talked about that cooperation with Novak, obstacles, challenges, and admitted that it is a great pleasure to cooperate with someone like Novak.
"In many things, he differs from other tennis players, but above all in our Balkan mentality. He is somehow special, different, more resourceful than others. He is like that both on and off the field, he is the best. I would say he is a genius, a perfectionist. Of course, it is not easy with him at all times, but it is a real challenge for me as a coach, and at the same time, a real trust and honor. Novak is never satisfied with the current results, he always wants more, better, what he did today is not enough for tomorrow and I guess that is why we are never bored", says Goran.
* You started your collaboration at Wimbledon, to which you have fond memories. This year is two decades since your title at the famous tournament, how does it feel to go back there?
"I'm getting old, time is going incredibly fast, it's been twenty years. I think that tournament was unrepeatable. Get an invitation to the tournament, play the semifinals for three days, it is unlikely...

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