Bronzetti’s current coach was the first tennis player beaten by Djokovic in Melbourne, in the 2005 qualifiers: “I was without a coach, he with a staff of five”
One hundred, round and round, the matches played by Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open. But everyone talks about 89 wins and eight losses, why? The three qualifiers are not counted. Won, of course. Year 2005, Nole’s first time in the tournament in which he would later triumph 10 times. Defeat in the first round in the main draw against Marat Safin, number 4 in the world, in a match of infinite charm, seen now: 6-0 6-2 6-1. Challenge to which the Serbian, then 17 years old and 188th in the ranking, had arrived starting from which and challenging an Italian in the first match: Francesco Piccari, current coach of Lucia Bronzetti.