By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Thursday, May 29, 2025
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ABOUT Stefanos tsisisitisiA new surface and a new coach can simply bring a summer revival to his career.
Tsitsitas, after being lost early in Roland-Garros of this year, is set to start taking the lead from the former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic Before shaking the bar court.
Ivanisevic, 53, will join Tsitsitsi at the beginning of the future Halle Open in Germany for a probationary period. Apostolos Tsitas, the father of Stefano, who has been training his son lately, will now not be part of the team, according to Greek media SDNA.
Stefanos Tsisisitsis will start working with Goran Ivanisevic next week. https://t.co/hexbwu3fcn
– Vicky Georgatou (@vgeorgatou) 29 May 2025
This afternoon, TsitsiSAPS confirmed the training partnership in a statement.
“Working with Goran is an exciting opportunity for me,” TsitsiPas said. “He is someone who has reached the highest levels of tennis as a player and as a coach.
“I’m sure his experience will help me grow further and I am really looking forward to.”
Known for his tactical acumen and sincere training style, Ivanisevic has led both Novak Djokovic and Marin in Grand Slam Championship.
One of the deadly servers of his generation, Ivanisevic, helped rebuild the service which promotes his running in the US open championship.
“Stefanos is a very talented tennisist with a strong work ethic,” Ivanišević said. “He has shown that he belongs among the best, and I’m happy to be part of the next steps of his journey.
“My goal is to allow him to bloom, based on the strong foundation he has already laid.”
There have been several difficult months for Tsisisso, 26, who is a great former finalist twice and achieved a high career of the world no. 3 in 2021.
Despite reaching the quarter-finals recently in Monte-Carlo and Barcelona, Tsitsias will now leave the top 20 in the world for the first time since 2018 after losing his second round in Paris in Italian qualification Matteo Gigante. Tsitipas, who fell to no. 26 In the Live ATP ranking, it failed to survive in the second round for the fourth consecutive Slam.
Earlier in Monte-Carlo, TsitsiSAI refused to confirm then that Ivivsevic would join his team.
Tsitsi, after losing to Paris, spoke about his wars to recover his winning form a few years ago.
“It is a constant puzzle,” Tsitsias said. “I am ambitious and I want to try it in the tennis court. Things have finally changed over the past two years, and I know I find myself in a completely different position now.”
Ivankevic, who trained Novak Djokovic For more than five years, recently ended his short training partnership with the WTA star and former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina At the beginning of this year.
Both Tsitsias’s parents have been instrumental coaches in its development, however some think that his parents’ intervention has damaged past training relationships, including one with Wimbledon Mark Philippoussis.
It is not impossible the Fammer Ivanisevic hall will have a lot of tolerance if Tsitsitsi’s parents are included as he left Rybakina’s team when she announced plans to reunite with her former coach as a training adviser.
Among the challenges Ivanisevic faces is the rebuilding of the confidence of Tsisisit, trying to solve the issues of his backward return and help him impose his skills of all judges rather than rely on his plus service combination.
