Goran Ivanisevic
Goran Ivanisevic
Goran Ivaniševićis a retired Croatian professional tennis player and current tennis coach. He is the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Before the 2001 tournament, he was ranked 125th and after his victory he was 16th. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2in 1994. He was coaching Marin Čilić from September 2013 to July 2016,...
NationalityCroatian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth13 September 1971
CitySplit, Croatia
CountryCroatia
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
I played bad and good, ... I served good, but I returned very bad. He's not a big server, but I saw that statistics and from 90 points, I won 20 on his serve. So that was the key to the match.
I played on the Champions Tour all year, I qualified for the Masters and I would have loved to have played at the Royal Albert Hall because I heard that it has an unbelievable atmosphere and I think I had a real chance to win it,
If she only wakes up five times in a night, it's like I've won the lottery. I'm awake at night and asleep during the day. I haven't found a way to keep her asleep. I tried yelling, but if I yell it gets even worse, she starts to cry and scream even more
I didn't even have fun to break anything today. That's how I felt, you know. Today's such a day when, you know... Even if somebody told me, 'Break,' I wouldn't break. You just... But I don't know. With me, anything is possible. When I come on the court, you know, anything happens. So they always expect something, something is gonna happen. But today, nothing happen. Today was show but no actors in the show, you know. Disappointing.
Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.
My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.
Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.
When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.
If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.
I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.
There are not many Irish people playing tennis!
Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.