Novak found a temporary solution: This will be Djokovic's new coach!

Novak Djokovic will be in unusual role on Masters in Madrid, since he won't have his longtime team besides him, after termination of cooperation with Marian Vajda, Miljan Amanovic and Gebhard Phil-Gritsch.

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The best Serbian tennis player at a press conference before the fourth Masters this season said it was a mutual decision and that he and his team recently decided it was time for a change.

As Djokovic said, he won't rush with choosing the new coach, and he stresses that he feels fine and that he has confidence. For now his brother Marko Djokovic will take the part of the coach, who assisted him during his training in Madrid, where he is defending a title.

The Spaniard Pepe Imaz remained in the coaching staff, who will be company to Marko Djokovic in the trainer role. Marko's  responsibility will be tennis, while Imaz's specialty will be working on physical relaxation and scholastic approach to tennis and life.

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Djokovic said at the press conference in Madrid that Pepe has been in his staff for 4-5 years, in the period of his greatest success in his career, and that it is wrong to connect him to the bad period in the career of once best player of the world after French Open 2016.

Novak will play his first match on Wednesday with the winner of the duel Tommy Robredo and Nicolas Almagro, and for the first time we will be able to see Novak's new team in action, and how Marko Djokovic works as a coach for his brother.

(Telegraf.co.uk)