“What’s going to happen when all three finish their careers? We’ll see. But it’s always you know, maybe you like more Federer, maybe you like more Nadal, and everybody likes different styles.

“But they didn’t say bye-bye yet, they’re still going to have a couple of years of playing and a lot of things are going to change, a lot of records are going to be broken and hopefully Novak can do that.”

“As a kid Novak was different, different thinking, the way his life developed, the way he is on the court, the way he is off the court.

“Also he is a national hero in his country and we [Serbia and Croatia] had problems before and he took me as a coach [anyway].