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Fede Gomez Discusses Meeting Djokovic In Miami
6 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
Federico Agustin Gomez shared some insights with me at Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open about his well-documented meeting with Novak Djokovic at Miami Open last month regarding the 28 year old’s struggles dealing with the pressure of an ATP career ranked outside the top 100.
Djokovic invited Gomez to train with him before the start of the 2024 Miami Open last month.
“He just gave me his support for the past few months that I’ve been struggling,” said Gomez, who before this week, has lost nine matches in a row in 2024 after winning his first two matches of the year in Brisbane qualifying. “He gave me the key…some of the things that he did in the past when he felt kind of the same way I was feeling, the pressure that he had to deal with. Just basically just tips. He let me know personally that he was out there, being there, to help me if I needed it.”
Though Gomez lost the first two matches that he played after personally meeting Djokovic – Miami Open qualies 1R to James Duckworth 57 57 and 1R of Houston qualies to eventual champion Jenson Brooksby 63 67 46 – he has since generated a sudden hot streak. In Houston, Gomez and his partner Santiago Gonzalez won three rounds and reached the final (16 46 loss to Romboli and Smith), pocketing $9,665.
And this week at Sarasota Open Gomez has won two rounds of singles – beating Garrett Johns and Inaki Montes De La Torre both in straight sets – and a round in doubles today 10-7 in the third set tiebreaker.
So Gomez may have survived the storm and begun writing a new chapter in his career, having won six of seven matches since the narrow loss to Brooksby in Houston.
In the QF, Gomez will play a familiar face – the 23 year old Romanian Filip Christian Jianu, a rival he played twice last year – Jianu won 64 21 in Lyon on clay and then Gomez avenged that loss in the Milan Challenger final 63 64.
Incredibly, the simple Miami pep talk from Novak Djokovic may be the major reason for this recent tennis surge from the Argentinean powerhouse Federico Agustin Gomez.
Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open · Federico Agustin Gomez · Novak Djokovic · Sarasota Open
Sam · April 14, 2025 at 4:41 am
Speaking of Djokovic, do you think his dismal performance in Monte Carlo means much, or can he get back into the groove for important tournaments coming up? 🤔
Scoop Malinowski · April 14, 2025 at 8:33 am
Sam I didn’t see any of the match vs Tabilo, busy with Sarasota Open, but I did see the video clip of him being asked after if he still considers himself a favorite at French Open and he smiled and said yes. It was a knowing smile, no self doubt at all, no insecurity about his game, he knows he will peak for when it really matters in Paris and Monte Carlo was just a practice week for him. If you catch my drift.
Sam · April 21, 2025 at 5:42 am
Interesting, Scoop. Well, I’m actually hoping that he saves his peak tennis for Wimbledon, where he’s probably got the best chance.
Sam · April 21, 2025 at 6:08 am
“Reilly Opelka testified that ATP Tour chairman Andrea Gaudenzi sent an unnamed player to warn him that if he didn’t take his name off the lawsuit, Opelka would lose his pension and be bogged down with millions of dollars in legal fees.”
Yes, Scoop, I read about that several days ago. Just plain evil. 👿 At least they’re running scared, though!
But equally concerning is Pospisil’s shock over how Djokovic’s public “disagreements” with certain things in the lawsuit don’t jibe with what Djokovic had said to him earlier in private. What do you make of that? 🤔
Sam · April 21, 2025 at 6:20 am
Karen Carpenter is the Novak Djokovic of female singers.
Interesting way to look at it. 😏
And then there’s all the rest – Donna Summer, Olivia Newton John, Selena, Sheena Easton, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack.
And the only one still alive in that group is Sheena Easton, who’s about to turn 66.
Yes Phil is still out there working, I think his label has signed bands with names like “Child Bite” and “Eye Hate God.” despicable.
Ouch—that doesn’t exactly sound like progress! 😟
Scoop Malinowski · April 21, 2025 at 7:41 am
Sam, we’re just gonna have to sit back and wait and see how that plays out. A Djokovic-Pospisil feud will not help the crusade.