Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Thursday, May 29, 2025
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for Stefanos Tsitsipasnew surfaces and new coaches may bring a summer revival to his career.
Tsitsipas will start to take guidance from former Wimbledon champions after this year’s Roland-Garros failure Goran Ivanisevic In front of the grass swing.
Ivanisevic, 53, will join TSITSIPAS at the start of the upcoming German Open. According to Greek media SDNA, Apostolos Tsitsipas, the father of Stefanos, who has been coaching his son recently, will now not be part of the team.
Stefanos Tsitsipas will start working with Goran Ivanisevic next week. https://t.co/hexbwu3fcn
– Vicky Georgatou (@vgeorgatou) May 29, 2025
This afternoon, Tsitsipas confirmed the coaching partnership in a statement.
“Working with Goran was an exciting opportunity for me,” Tsitsipas said. “He is a guy who reaches the highest level of tennis as a player and coach.
“I believe his experience will help me develop further and I’m really looking forward to it.”
Known for his tactical acumen and candid coaching style, Ivanisevic directed Novak Djokovic and Marin Cilic to host the Grand Slam Championships.
Ivanisevic is one of the deadliest servers of his generation, helping to rebuild Cilic’s services and inspiring him to enter the U.S. Open Championship game.
“Stevanos is a very talented tennis player with a strong work ethic,” said Ivanisevic. “He has proven himself to be the best and I’m happy to be part of the next step in his journey.
“My goal is to enable him to thrive on the strong foundation he has laid.”
It’s been a tough few months for the 26-year-old Tsitsipas, who was a two-time major finalist and finished third in the world in 2021.
Despite reaching the quarterfinals in Monte-Carlo and Barcelona recently, Tsitsipas will now leave the world’s top 20 for the first time since 2018, after his second round loss to the Italian qualifier in Paris. Matteo Gigante. Tsitsipas fell to 26th in the ATP Live rankings, and he failed to survive the second round for his fourth straight Grand Slam.
Earlier in Monte-Carlo, Tsitsipas refused to confirm that Ivanisevic would join his team.
After the Paris defeat, Titsipas talked about his efforts to restore his form of victory a few years ago.
“It’s a constant puzzle,” Tsitsipas said. “I’m ambitious and I want to prove it on the tennis court. Things have certainly changed over the past few years and I know I’m in a completely different position now.”
Ivanisevic, coaching Novak Djokovic For over five years, he recently ended his brief coaching partnership with WTA star and former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina Earlier this year.
Both of Tsitsipas’ parents were tool coaches in his development, but some felt his parental intervention had damaged the coach’s relationship, including with former Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis.
If Tsitsipas’ parents step in with Rybakina’s team, it’s unlikely that there will be much tolerance for his parents when he announces plans to reunite with her former coach as a coaching consultant.
One of the challenges for Ivanchesvik’s face is to rebuild Tsitsipas’ confidence, trying to solve his backhand return problem and help him impose his full-field skills instead of relying solely on his service and a combination of forehands.
