How 2021 Djokovic is, how difficult Djokovic is in 2022.
In 2021, Djokovic swept the four Grand Slams, and was one step away from achieving the annual Grand Slam at the US Open. But in 2022, Djokovic, who insisted on not vaccinating, was directly expelled from the Australian Open and could not defend his title, and lost to the unknown youngsters at the Dubai Open in February, which directly led to the total number of Grand Slams being surpassed by Nadal and the world number one being harvested by Medvedev.
However, this may be just the beginning.
Meritorious coach Vajda left the post, ending a 15-year partnership
On March 1, Djokovic announced through his personal website platform that he would end his partnership with coach Vajda.
The 57-year-old Vajda joined the Djokovic team as early as 2006 and helped and witnessed the glory of Djokovic's career - winning the first Grand Slam at the Australian Open in 2008; winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2011, ranking first in the world; winning the Cincinnati Masters in 2018 and unlocking the "Golden Masters" record; winning the Cincinnati Masters championship in 2020 to unlock the "Double All-Gold Masters" record; winning the Australian Open, French Open, and Winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon won three Grand Slam titles, unlocked the "double circle Grand Slam", and broke Federer's longest world first week in one fell swoop, equaling Federer and Nadal's 20 Grand Slam records.
It is reported that the two discussed ending the partnership after last year's ATP finals and reached a consensus. Vajda wished she had more time to spend with her family.
During his cooperation with Vajda, Djokovic also cooperated with Becker, Agassi, Stepanek, Ivanisevich and others, but only Ivanisevich was still in the team, and the other cooperation time was not long.
It is worth mentioning that the cooperation between Vajda and Djokovic has not been smooth. In 2013, when Djokovic encountered a bottleneck, He hired Becker to join, ostensibly forming a "double coach" model with Vajda, but in fact, it was still based on Becker.
In 2017, Deyo fell into a trough due to injury, chose the meditation master, disbanded the core members of the team, including Vajda, and then switched to Agassi. It was only in 2018 that Vaida was recruited again.
In 2019, Ivanisevic joined, once again forming a "double coach" model with Vajda, each responsible for two Grand Slams.
It can be seen that Vajda has the effect of "fixing the sea god needle" in Deyo's entire team, and I don't know if this parting will be worse for Djokovic?
Peugeot no longer sponsors Djokovic and ends the 8-year partnership
Recently, Peugeot announced that it would no longer sponsor Djokovic, and the two sides ended their 8-year partnership.
It is reported that the reason for the termination of cooperation between the two sides is mainly that Peugeot has suffered a huge economic blow during the epidemic.
In 2014, Peugeot announced the signing of a three-year cooperation agreement with Djokovic, who became peugeot's international ambassador. In the game, we can also see the Peugeot logo on Djokovic.
At the beginning of this year, the Australian government canceled Djokovic's visa, and Peugeot cars were once Deyo. Now, in just a few dozen days, they have announced that they will no longer cooperate. Although the gossip said that this had nothing to do with Deyo's insistence that he would not be vaccinated, it still aroused the imagination of everyone.
The well-worthy Djokovic naturally does not care about the advertiser's departure, but his international image has been greatly reduced during the epidemic.