Reports

Tennis shows Serbia in a good light

News Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Janko Tipsarevic, the world number 9 and the new columnist for The Tennis Space, discusses the impact that the success of his country’s top players, especially Novak Djokovic, is having on Serbia’s image around the world.

In the last few years, we have had bad luck with leaders of the country, especially Milosevic. That just destroyed the reputation of the country worldwide. A small country like Serbia does not show up on CNN or the BBC or any other big and global news television unless something really big is happening. In the last 10, 15 years, almost all of the news, except sport, was bad so everyone got the wrong impression of Serbs as people. read more…

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News Since Guardiola decided not to put me,I went outside to show them a bit how its done…;)

Don’t be a tennis rebel

News Thursday, 23 February 2012

If I had the chance now to speak to my 18- or 19-year-old self, I would tell him to stop being a baby on court. When I was that age, if a match wasn’t going the way I wanted it to, I would be like a crying baby who couldn’t have the doll he wanted. I really regret that I was like that.

I wish I had had a different mindset then, the sort of attitude that I have now as a 27-year old. I wish I realised then you must always give everything on the court, that you have a short career, that every freaking match counts. That’s what I’m going to be telling the young players who are going to be spending time with me this year, as part of a programme with my sponsor Tecnifibre. Five players will spend a week each with me this season, starting in Indian Wells in California next month, and then in Monte Carlo, Gstaad, Shanghai and Belgrade. I would have liked, when I was their age, to have had an opportunity to spend time with a player on the tour, to hear what it takes to be a professional tennis player. I like helping people how to do things, and I’m very excited about this. read more…