Rome: Coach Matteo Berretti has warned Novak Djokovic that he had something on his sleeve making Italy made him a third time luck against the number one world in the US-open quarter-final on Wednesday.
The two players will face 2021 grand slam for the third consecutive time in Flushing Meadows, after Djokovic came out at the top of the quarter-finals of Roland Garros and the Wimbledon final.
“Last Thursday we practiced with Novak and tried something a little useful, when trying to understand and learn what it could make it the most disturbance,” coach Vincenzo Santopadre told La Repubblica on Wednesday.
“Maybe I cheat myself, but I’m an optimistic person and I’m also very confident.” Djokovic, who chased the Grand Slam calendar and recorded the 21st title 21 in New York, had a perfect 3-0 career record for Berretti, but Santopadre only looked positively from the meeting.
“This is a match that can be taken here, even if he loses.
Play Serbia is a pleasure, it is a way to the future,” he said.
“We already have something in mind today.
Because the match takes place, more ideas come.” He added: “Matteo can win the grand slam, I will not be navigated from this belief.
I know it will be an extraordinary and historic achievement, but it’s not absurd.”