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Marian Vajda Believes Alexander Zverev Can Be New Novak Djokovic

Marian Vajda believes Alexander Zverev can be the Novak Djokovic after his win at the ATP Finals at the end of the 2018 season.

By Tony Fairbairn
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Novak Djokovic’s coach, Marian Vajda, believes Alexander Zverev can be the new Djokovic with the help of Ivan Lendl.

The Slovakian won coach of the year after helping Djokovic to two grand slam titles in 2018. They also achieved the year-end world number one together in what was an incredible comeback.

However Vajda knows that the next generation of players are on the horizon having witnessed his player lose to Stefanos Tsitsipas, Karen Khachanov and Alexander Zverev since Wimbledon.

As the 2019 season approaches, the Slovak is impressed with the latter player and says that Ivan Lendl can help Zverev to become the new Novak Djokovic, “I told Ivan Lendl that he has a big talented guy with Zverev,” Vajda told Swiss website Bernerzeitung. “He remembers me the way I took the control with Novak. Ivan is very smart, he will teach him a lot.”

After the German’s impressive win at the ATP Finals at the end of the season, it is hard to argue that the 21 year old is heading down that route given his majestic defensive skills. Although Zverev has a lot of stamina to gain if he wants to start gaining success at grand slam level.

As well as being Zverev, Vajda also added that he is looking forward to the other stars of the future challenging Zverev, “Tsitsipas is good, I like De Minaur but he is not mature yet. Coric made huge progress. And he is just 22. I like Khachanov as well, he plays fearlessly.”

The future is clearly bright with many young stars breaking out although the question remains if whether they can prove themselves at grand slam level, with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic still dominating.

Novak Djokovic and Marian Vajda will look to get their 2019 season off to the best possible start when they start the season in Doha, which starts on the 31st of December.

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