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Ivanisevic about Jaziri:"He doesn’t practice, he doesn’t go to the gym, and he’s #70"
"He’s lost in space and he’s No70 in the world," Ivanisevic told Sport360 ahead of Jaziri’s third round clash with Nick Kyrgios on Friday.
"We really became great friends in the IPTL, he’s an unbelievable guy. He is a great talent but he has no idea about tennis – no coach, he doesn’t practice, he doesn’t go to the gym, and he’s No70 in the world. So he’s an unbelievable talent."
"I told Malek ‘listen, I’m going to coach you here’. I have nothing to do and he’s a really nice guy," explained Ivanisevic.
"So he won two rounds. The first round he played an amazing match, he played against Kukushkin, who played the final in Sydney."
Jaziri fought off the Kazakh in four sets in round one before pulling off a rough five-set win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin two days later.
"I don’t know how I can describe that match," Ivanisevic said of Jaziri’s second round clash.
"He took another 10 years of my life that’s for sure. 6-1, 2-0 he didn’t move. And then he started to play. And then four match points. But it’s great to see because he really can play good tennis."
"I can always help him when I’m on the tour. He can practice with Marin, with me, he’s a nice guy and I like him a lot, but he needs to find hopefully somebody that can travel with him," said Ivanisevic.
"I told him during the IPTL ‘try, give yourself one or two years. Invest in you, because you’re really good. You’re 70 in the world, imagine if you had everything, how high you can go? Try, if it works, it works, if it doesn’t, at least you tried because after that you’re going to feel sorry that you didn’t try’.
"So hopefully I can push him a little bit, to maybe find somebody to be okay with him, to travel to some weeks."
"People don’t know about Jaziri but then they’re very surprised when they play him," he said.
"They say ‘okay, who am I playing? Jaziri, I’ll win’. My ass! It’s not going like that. He showed everybody here.
http://sport360.com/article/international/31791/exclusive-interview-goran-ivanisevic-getting-best-out-tenniss-elite
"He’s lost in space and he’s No70 in the world," Ivanisevic told Sport360 ahead of Jaziri’s third round clash with Nick Kyrgios on Friday.
"We really became great friends in the IPTL, he’s an unbelievable guy. He is a great talent but he has no idea about tennis – no coach, he doesn’t practice, he doesn’t go to the gym, and he’s No70 in the world. So he’s an unbelievable talent."
"I told Malek ‘listen, I’m going to coach you here’. I have nothing to do and he’s a really nice guy," explained Ivanisevic.
"So he won two rounds. The first round he played an amazing match, he played against Kukushkin, who played the final in Sydney."
Jaziri fought off the Kazakh in four sets in round one before pulling off a rough five-set win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin two days later.
"I don’t know how I can describe that match," Ivanisevic said of Jaziri’s second round clash.
"He took another 10 years of my life that’s for sure. 6-1, 2-0 he didn’t move. And then he started to play. And then four match points. But it’s great to see because he really can play good tennis."
"I can always help him when I’m on the tour. He can practice with Marin, with me, he’s a nice guy and I like him a lot, but he needs to find hopefully somebody that can travel with him," said Ivanisevic.
"I told him during the IPTL ‘try, give yourself one or two years. Invest in you, because you’re really good. You’re 70 in the world, imagine if you had everything, how high you can go? Try, if it works, it works, if it doesn’t, at least you tried because after that you’re going to feel sorry that you didn’t try’.
"So hopefully I can push him a little bit, to maybe find somebody to be okay with him, to travel to some weeks."
"People don’t know about Jaziri but then they’re very surprised when they play him," he said.
"They say ‘okay, who am I playing? Jaziri, I’ll win’. My ass! It’s not going like that. He showed everybody here.
http://sport360.com/article/international/31791/exclusive-interview-goran-ivanisevic-getting-best-out-tenniss-elite
