‘Me and Novak have similarities but we're still different’- Jannik Sinner opens on hiring Djokovic’s Ex-coaches

The World's Number 1 tennis player Jannik Sinner is competing at the Shanghai 2024 Masters tournament. He recently lost the China Open 2024 finals against Carlos Alcaraz. Now he is swinging the racket at his second Asian derby. Before his 2024 Asian Derby, the Italian hired former world number 1 Novak Djokovic’s ex-physiotherapist, Ulises Badio, and Ex-fitness coach Marco Panichi.

Marco Panichi for the first time collaborated with Novak Djokovic in 2017. After a 5 year successful run, the duo parted ways with the Tennis legend. In these five years with the help of the Duo, Novak dominated Tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Due to his doping test controversy, Jannik Sinner fired his former Physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi and former fitness coach Umberto Ferrara. Marco and Ulises for the first time sat alongside Sinner in the 2024 China Open Tournament finals last week.

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'Same, same but different' - Sinner

The US Open winner has now reached the fourth round of the tournament and he spoke with the press about hiring the duo from the former world no 1. He said "We have some similarities, me and Novak Djokovic, but at the end, we are still different, so you know, we have to try to adopt our, you know, whatever is best for me, and trying to understand. But this, it takes time, But I'm very happy to have them on my team.”

He said it takes some little time to know each other and he is already feeling very comfortable working with the two. This season Jannik Sinner already won 6 titles. He is chasing the Shanghai Masters to win his seventh title. He already won 2 Masters 1000 titles this season. In the Shanghai Masters, he already won Taro Daniel and Tomas Etcheverry. He will now play the winner of Ben Shelton and Roberto Carballes. If he wins then he will play the quarter-final match.

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