Is Novak Djokovic, Boris Becker Pairing Headed For Another Sharapova, Connors Split? Djokovic ‘Satisfied’ With Becker Despite Australian Open Loss [VIDEO] : TENNIS : Sports World News

It is not a one-and-done state of affairs just like the Maria Sharapova-Jimmy Connors failed merger, however a playing web site already is taking bets on whether or not this union will quickly crumble as properly.

Novak Djokovic’s gorgeous five-set loss to Stanislas Wawrinka within the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday instantly turned the media’s consideration to Djokovic’s new coach, Boris Becker.

Djokovic, the No. 2 participant on the earth, was the three-time reigning Australian Open champion coming into this yr’s match. He was using a 25-match profitable streak in Melbourne in addition to a 28-match profitable streak since shedding the 2013 U.S. Open last.

However his jittery play on the finish of the five-set match despatched critics on the lookout for a scapegoat in Becker.

“Was it the German’s affect, for instance, that on match level down led to Djokovic abandoning his regular dogged methodology of coping with a disaster to serve-and-volley – a tactic that backfired horrendously when a routine forehand volley went broad?” gmanetwork.com asked.

Djokovic deflected criticism away from his coach after the match.

“It has been the primary official match for us,” mentioned Djokovic, as reported by the Daily Mirror. “I am glad with issues we have been speaking about, engaged on. After all, it is unlucky we completed the match within the quarterfinals.

“But it surely’s the start of the season and we are going to see what occurs subsequent. Stan took his alternatives – he deserved to win immediately.”

Wawrinka broke a 14-match shedding streak to the Serb.

After all, critics of the Becker-Djokovic pairing are fast to level to the streak and overlook that Wawrinka took Djokovic to 5 units final yr, shedding 12-10 within the fifth. He misplaced one other five-set match to Djokovic in final yr’s U.S. Open after defeating Andy Murray earlier within the match.

In response to the Mirror, Ladsbroke, a playing web site, quoted odds at 2-1 that Becker and Djokovic would not be working collectively by the point the 2014 French Open rolls round in Might.

That provides Becker a while to maintain from changing into the boys’s tennis model of Connors, whom Sharapova kicked to the curb as her coach after only one match, a loss to Sloane Stephens final August.

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