{"id":58788,"date":"2026-05-21T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58788"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:45:26","slug":"djokovic-names-compatriot-troicki-as-coach-ahead-of-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58788","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Names Compatriot Troicki as Coach Ahead of French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has confirmed long-time friend and compatriot Viktor Troicki as his head coach ahead of next week&#8217;s French Open where the Serb will bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome my friend, teammate and now coach&#8230; Viktor Troicki,&#8221; former world \u2060number one Djokovic \u2060wrote on Instagram, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The pair have previously combined. Troicki, Serbia&#8217;s Davis Cup captain, joined Djokovic&#8217;s coaching setup for his Paris Olympics \u2060gold medal triumph in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>They previously teamed up as players to deliver Serbia its first Davis Cup title in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Troicki&#8217;s immediate task will be to help Djokovic, who turns 39 on Friday, muster confidence after an injury-disrupted season \u2060following \u2060his defeat in the Australian Open final in January.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has had limited clay-court preparation ahead of the year&#8217;s second Grand Slam while managing his workload to cope with a niggling shoulder issue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The French Open starts on Sunday.<\/p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/node\/5275652\">Original Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has confirmed long-time friend and compatriot Viktor Troicki as his head coach ahead of next week&#8217;s French Open where the Serb will bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title. &#8220;Welcome my friend, teammate and now coach&#8230; Viktor Troicki,&#8221; former world \u2060number one Djokovic \u2060wrote on Instagram, according to Reuters. The pair have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58790,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-21T11:45:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"53248077-5aff-4748-9db6-d5e40767a156","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-21T11:45:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUySAd1r_R0idttXkB2ehVg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58789,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58788\/revisions\/58789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}