“Former players and colleagues tell the parents of the children I coach that I am a former drug addict and that they should not give their children to me to teach them tennis,” he explained. However, the 44-year-old is motivated to help children stay on the right path after what he went through.
He added: “I want to work, to train gifted children for tennis, and thank God our country is full of them. I know what I went through, it was a huge and unfortunately too expensive life school for me, but that’s why I can tell every kid right away, [stay] as far [away] as possible from drugs.
“I still know all those tennis tricks to pass on to kids that others can’t or don’t know. I want to give Serbia new tennis champions, a new Novak, a new Ana [Ivanovic], a new Jelena [Jankovic], and why not, a new Nikola Gnjatovic, the way he always should have been, champion and the strongest.”
