L’Oeil du Coach #74 : “Roger aimait jouer et gagner, Rafa aime se battre, Novak veut dominer, plus que tout”

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00:00 Roger, Rafa, Novak have the main qualities.

00:03 But Novak wants to dominate.

00:06 He wants to be better.

00:07 He wants it more.

00:09 And that's where he's better than two others.

00:11 I think I said that he will probably be the record holder

00:18 of number of Grand Slams when he had 12 or 13.

00:21 I thought so for several reasons.

00:22 First of all, he was dominant already.

00:25 I felt that at that time,

00:26 he was better than Roger and Rafa.

00:30 Of course, Rafa was always better on clay,

00:32 but on all the other surfaces, he was superior.

00:36 Of course, he lost many matches against them,

00:38 but generally speaking, I felt he was winning more

00:41 and able to win more and constantly.

00:44 Also, he was still young,

00:45 and I knew that his body was in perfect shape

00:49 and ready to last much more than Rafa, for example,

00:53 who had so many injuries

00:54 and has a game that is painful for the body.

00:58 Novak's game is not painful for the body.

01:00 He has an incredible diet, training.

01:03 He's just, for me, the perfect athlete for tennis.

01:06 So that was the reason.

01:07 And third, I would say his mindset.

01:10 He's really someone who wants to dominate.

01:12 He's a concurrent and he's a dominator.

01:14 That's what he wants.

01:15 And also, he loves to prove people wrong.

01:19 And the fact that there were so many fans

01:21 for the two others and less for him,

01:23 that he was not as liked as the two others,

01:25 I felt that it created in him the will

01:27 to make a revenge one way or another.

01:29 And the best answer to that is to be undoubtedly better

01:33 than them in terms of achievement.

01:35 I think this combination of the three elements is key

01:37 and has been key in all his achievements

01:40 since he started to play tennis.

01:41 All three, Roger, Rafa, Novak, have the main qualities,

01:46 but some are better than others at certain things.

01:50 All three love tennis.

01:51 Maybe, probably, Roger is the one who loves tennis the most.

01:55 He's a player.

01:56 He loves tennis.

01:57 He's breathing tennis, he's living tennis all his career.

02:01 And that's why he was playing that type of tennis.

02:03 Rafa loves fights.

02:04 He loves to be on the court.

02:05 He loves to suffer.

02:06 He loves to fight from the first point to the last one

02:09 and give.

02:10 This is where he excels

02:11 and this is where he feels the more alive.

02:15 Novak wants to dominate.

02:17 He wants to be better.

02:18 And that's where he's better than two others.

02:19 He has the willingness to be better than anyone,

02:23 to dominate, to be the best.

02:25 It has been a driver for him all his career.

02:27 And I think he's superior to the two others

02:29 in that special area.

02:31 He wants it more.

02:32 It's more important to him.

02:34 He's prepared to do more.

02:36 He's prepared to have the diet,

02:38 the perfect diet every day in his life.

02:40 He's prepared to sacrifice everything to be the best.

02:44 The two others, yes, but he wants to be the best.

02:46 He wants to dominate.

02:47 He wants to be on top of the world.

02:48 That's, for him, that was his main driver,

02:52 his main motivation.

02:53 Roger wanted to play tennis and win

02:55 because he loves to play tennis

02:56 and he's a great competitor.

02:57 And Rapha wants to be on that court

02:59 and fight and suffer and end up winning.

03:02 It's more general for Novak.

03:04 He wants to be the one on top of the world,

03:06 on top of everyone.

03:07 He wants to be the best.

03:08 That's what drove him.

03:09 The fact that he's now obviously the best with 24 titles

03:13 will not change it because first, he has competitors.

03:17 He has Carlos who's pushing him a lot,

03:19 Daniel who's pushing him a lot,

03:21 and maybe two more others that are gonna push him a lot.

03:23 And he still wants to be on top of the world.

03:25 It's not something that he can accept to lose,

03:28 so he's gonna fight for that.

03:30 And second, he wants to make history.

03:32 He wants to be the best, undoubtedly, of all times.

03:34 And if he can make a record that will stay forever,

03:37 that will never, ever be beaten in history,

03:40 it's enough to give him the utmost motivation.

03:43 And he has it.

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