I coached Novak Djokovic – these are the secrets that made him the GOAT 我曾执教Novak Djokovic，以下就是让他成为史上最佳球员的秘密 https://reurl.cc/Ym77bn I was in Serbian’s corner for three years between 2013 and 2016; this is what I tweaked to make him a grass-court immortal 2013年至2016年间，我担任这位塞尔维亚名将的教练三年，而这些就是我所做出的调整，让 他成为草地球场的不朽传奇 Boris Becker 03 July 2026 6:00am BST Boris Becker Could it be Novak Djokovic’s summer at Wimbledon? I wouldn’t rule it out. Even if he has lost half a step since his peak years as an athlete, this tournament is all about the mind. 今年的温布顿会不会又属於Novak Djokovic？我不会排除这个可能性，即使他的身体状态已 经不像巅峰时期那样敏捷，但这项赛事真正比拚的是心理素质。 Grass-court tennis tests your mental strength and your temperament like no other surface. On clay, if you miss a break point, you don’t need to worry too much: there will be another one along in a minute. But on grass, you might only get o ne chance per set. 草地球场对心理强度和情绪控制的考验胜过任何其他场地，在红土场如果错过一个破发点不 用太担心很快还会有下一次机会，但在草地场每盘可能就只有那麽一次机会。 This sorts the men from the boys. And Novak isn’t just a grown up; he is the el der statesman of the game. 这正是区分真正成熟球员与年轻球员的地方。而Novak不只是成熟的球员更是这项运动的精 神领袖 At 39, he will not be the fastest or the strongest player in the draw anymore. B ut Wimbledon favours the smartest players ahead of the finest physical specimens . I’m talking about people who can read the game, and who can understand their opponent’s strengths. Every server has a favourite corner to hit on break-point down, so you must study that information in advance, and then apply it when the time comes. 39岁的他已经不再是签表中速度最快或力量最强的球员，但温布顿更偏爱最聪明的球员而不 是身体条件最出色的人，我指的是那些能够阅读比赛并理解对手优势的球员，每位发球员在 面临破发点时都会有自己最喜欢攻击的落点所以你必须事先研究这些资讯并在关键时刻加以 运用 Djokovic’s tennis intelligence has helped win seven Wimbledon titles. Djokovic卓越的网球智慧帮助他赢得七座温布顿冠军 During the three years that I spent coaching Novak, I learned a few Serbian swea rwords. If you get the game plan wrong, he will be p––d off, because the man i s the ultimate perfectionist. 在执教Novak的三年间我还学会了几句塞尔维亚脏话，如果你的比赛计画出错他就会非常生 气因为他是个追求完美到极致的人 But he won two Wimbledon titles in that time because he understood the need to b e unpredictable, and to launch attacks when the other guy wasn’t expecting it. The element of surprise is so much more important on grass. You must keep your p oker face on at all times, and then only show your true cards when it matters mo st. 但他在那段期间赢得两座温布顿冠军因为他知道自己必须难以预测并在对手毫无防备时发动 攻势，在草地球场出其不意的重要性远高於其他场地，你必须始终保持扑克脸直到最关键的 时刻才亮出真正的底牌 Novak would be braver, and more “clutch” – as the Americans say – than his r ivals. When the decisive moment came, Novak might seize the initiative with a da ring dash to the net behind hi second serve. Novak比其他对手更加勇敢也更具备美国人所说的关键时刻决胜能力，当决定胜负的时刻来 临时他甚至敢在二发後立刻冲上网前主动抢攻 It all came together when we went to Wimbledon for the first time together, in t he summer of 2014. At that time Novak was on a sequence of runner-up finishes at the slams: he had lost five of his previous six major finals. But that was a hu ge event for him because he defeated Roger Federer over five sets in the Wimbled on final, and then nibbled a piece of the Centre Court grass in celebration. 一切成果都在2014年夏天我们第一次一起参加温布顿时完全展现，当时Novak正陷入大满贯 决赛连续失利的低潮，在这之前六场大满贯决赛中输掉了五场，但那次对他意义重大因为他 在温布顿决赛历经五盘击败Roger Federer并在夺冠後咬下一小口中央球场的草皮庆祝。 https://i.imgur.com/SBcfIQZ.png From there, he reversed his recent trend by winning six of his next seven finals . And the biggest change that we made, to make that happen, was in his court pos ition. 从那之後他扭转了过去的颓势接下来七场决赛赢下六场，而我们做出的最大改变就是调整他 的站位 When I first got to him, Novak was standing three or four metres behind the base line. It was taking him four hours to win matches. Even though he was younger an d fitter in those days, his tank was empty by the semi-finals. 我刚开始执教他时，Novak总是站在底线後三到四公尺的位置，并且比赛常常要打四个小时 才能赢，即使当时他更年轻体能更好，但到了四强时也几乎耗尽所有体力 Because of his talent, I advised him to stay much closer to the baseline. I beli eved it would help him to win points, sets and matches faster, by applying more pressure to his opponent. Then, if you get the job done quickly and you still wa nt to work on your forehand up the line, we can go and book a practice court for afters. 基於他的天赋，我建议他更靠近底线站位，我相信这样能给对手更大的压力，并让他更快赢 下每一分每一盘以及整场比赛，如果比赛很快就结束，而你还想练直线正拍那我们之後再去 租练习场就好了 We also worked on structuring each point more aggressively. I didn’t want him t rading backhands across court 15 times. I said: “Do it three times, and then go for the winner.” Train the brain, so that you can speed everything up. 我们也调整了每一分的进攻策略让打法更具侵略性，我不希望他和对手来回对抽十五拍反拍 ，我告诉他来回三拍就够了，接着直接寻找致胜球，训练你的大脑让一切节奏都加快。 The other key point about playing on grass was that he needed to serve better, b ecause that saves you a lot of heartache. He simplified his serve at that stage. It had been a bit of a messy action when he was younger, but now it is so relia ble that he can bank on it whenever he comes under pressure. 另一个草地比赛的关键就是他必须提升发球品质，因为这能让你少承受许多压力和挫折，他 在那个阶段简化了自己的发球动作，年轻时他的发球动作有些凌乱，但如今已经稳定到每当 面临压力时都能完全信赖它 If anything, there were moments during our time together when Novak was too tech nical. As a coach, I had to remind him not to overthink his shots, because tenni s requires quick movements and almost instantaneous reactions to the ball. If yo u’re thinking too much about your technique, you’ll be late with your shot. 如果真要说有什麽问题，那就是我们合作期间Novak有时候太过执着於技术细节，身为教练 我必须提醒他不要过度思考每一次击球，因为网球需要快速移动，以及几乎瞬间完成对来球 的反应，如果你一直在想自己的技术动作击球就会慢半拍。 He soon understood everything we worked on and took it into his game. This is wh at the great players do: they evolve. And Novak, as his record proves, is the gr eatest of all time. He has incredible IQ, both in his tennis and across his life in general. Here is a man who can talk in six or seven languages about business , about politics, about science. His personal icon is Nikola Tesla. Which other sportsman or woman has such a hero? 他很快就理解了我们所做的一切调整并完全融入自己的比赛，这就是伟大球员会做的事，他 们会不断进化，而Novak正如他的纪录所证明的那样就是史上最佳，他拥有惊人的智商不仅 体现在网球上也体现在人生各个层面，他能用六到七种语言谈论商业政治以及科学，他个人 最崇拜的人是Nikola Tesla，有哪一位运动员拥有这样的偶像呢。 The way Novak improved his serve is similar to what Jannik Sinner has done in th e last year or so. Again, Sinner is a very intelligent player, and with a smart coach in Darren Cahill, he understands the value of a serve that earns a lot of free points. Novak改善发球的方式和Jannik Sinner过去一年左右所做的非常相似，同样地Sinner也是一 位非常聪明的球员，他在Darren Cahill这位优秀教练的带领下，他深知一个能轻松拿下免 费分数的发球有多重要 I see a lot of comparisons between Sinner and Novak. They are both very calculat ing players, whereas Carlos Alcaraz has the soul of an artist. Like Roger Federe r, Alcaraz wants to create a painting on the court. I’ve spoken about the impor tance of the game plan for Novak, but the worst thing you could do with either F ederer or Alcaraz is to give them any kind of game plan. They want to go out the re and improvise, to play creative and free. 我看到很多人拿Sinner和Novak相比，他们都是非常擅长计算的球员，而Carlos Alcaraz则 拥有艺术家的灵魂，就像Roger Federer一样，Alcaraz希望在球场上创作一幅艺术作品，我 曾谈过比赛计画对Novak的重要性，但对Federer或Alcaraz来说，最糟糕的事就是替他们制 定任何固定的比赛计画，他们想要的是自由发挥即兴创造并打出充满创意的网球。 It’s a great thing for tennis that Novak is still here and still giving us the benefit of his insight. On Wednesday night, his comments on Serena Williams, who m he described as “an incredible gift for our sport”, were absolutely spot on even though they could also apply to Novak himself. 对网球而言，Novak至今仍活跃於赛场并持续分享他的见解是一件非常美好的事，星期三晚 上他形容Serena Williams是我们这项运动不可思议的礼物这番话，完全说中了事实，尽管 同样的形容其实也适用於Novak自己 As for how long he will carry on, my money is on the 2028 Olympics in LA. The on ly problem is that the regular tour has come to bore him. If you’ve won 24 majo rs, what’s your motivation for fitting in another Miami Open? As a result, he i s sometimes in danger of not playing enough. Four matches between Melbourne and Paris this year was on the light side, even for such a great champion. 至於他还会打多久，我的答案是2028年洛杉矶奥运，唯一的问题在於例行巡回赛对他来说已 经有些乏味了，如果你已经赢得24座大满贯还有什麽动力再去多打一站迈阿密公开赛呢 因此他有时反而面临比赛打得不够多的风险，今年从墨尔本到巴黎之间他只打了四场比赛即 使对这样伟大的冠军而言也实在偏少。 The danger is that, because Novak has so many other interests, sometimes they ta ke him away a little bit from tennis. He will really need to discipline himself to make it to LA ’28. But I’m hoping for the sport’s sake that he gets there. 真正的风险在於Novak有太多其他兴趣，有时会让他的注意力稍微远离网球，如果他想一路 打到2028年洛杉矶奥运就必须更加自律，但为了这项运动我真心希望他能够做到 风险是兴趣太多XDD https://i.imgur.com/GsuRizt.png https://i.imgur.com/FtgFGCg.png https://i.imgur.com/dhJMJia.jpeg 两人合作的三年 2014 61W 8L 7冠 拿下温网 2015 82W 6L 11冠 拿下澳温美网 2016 65W 9L 7冠 拿下澳法网（生涯全满贯达阵） --

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