Stefanos Tsitsipas appoints Goran Ivanisevic as new coach after Roland Garros: Report

Stefanos Tsitsipas recently ended his one-year title drought at the Dubai Open.

Stefanos Tsitsipas has been without a full-time coach since he parted ways with his father, Apostolos Tsitsipas in August 2024. The long stretch of going solo will reportedly end after the 2025 French Open when Goran Ivanisevic comes on board to coach the Greek player full-time. The Greek publication Gazzetta carried word of the announcement in their Thursday edition.

The Ivanisevic-Tsitsipas partnership will begin just before the grass-court season gets underway. The World No. #8 booked a place in the quarter-finals for the fifth successive time at the Monte Carlo Masters, becoming the second player to do so after Rafael Nadal. Tstisipas defeated Nuno Broges to register his 50th clay-court win at a Masters event.

🚨 👏 WOW! Goran Ivanisevic will become Stefanos Tsitsipas’s new coach after Roland Garros! 💥 🗣️ https://t.co/mm4E0udpDb📸 Kelly Defina pic.twitter.com/0rlIX9ZxlU

— Olly Tennis 🎾🇬🇧 (@Olly_Tennis_) April 10, 2025

Tsitsipas remains on course for a fourth Monte Carlo Masters title. The Greek sixth seed has won the tournament thrice since 2020 and another title run will see him move ahead of Ilie Nastase, Bjorn Borg and Thomas Muster. The trio of Nastase, Borg and Muster have three titles each at the venue. 

Defending his 2024 Monte Carlo crown will also make Tsitsipas the second most successful player at the venue behind Nadal. The Spaniard’s 11 titles in Monte Carlo includes an envy-inducing eight in a row he bagged between 2005 and 2012.

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Joining hands with Goran Ivanisevic can only be good news for Tsitsipas. Ivanisevic, who is Croatian, guided Novak Djokovic to nine Grand Slam titles in a highly successful stint as coach between 2019 and 2024. 

Ivanisevic then moved on to coaching WTA star Elena Rybakina on a trial basis in December 2024. That partnership ended in January after the Australian Open, in which she made a fourth-round exit to eventual champion Madison Keys.

Good news ! https://t.co/xwFBLESPck

— Boris Becker (@TheBorisBecker) April 10, 2025

Ivanisevic unexpectedly parting ways with Rybakina leaves him free to coach Tstisipas with a focus on the grass court season. Another former Djokovic coach, Boris Becker, supported the move by Tstisipas to hire Ivanisevic, terming the development ‘good news’ on X (formerly Twitter).  

Tsitsipas could use the assistance of the 2001 Wimbledon champ as the Greek’s last win on the surface came in 2022 in Mallorca.

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