Rafael Nadal's split with uncle Toni 'can't be compared' to Novak Djokovic's situation

Former world No 9 Marc Rosset has explained why Novak Djokovic's recent split with Marian Vajda "can't compare" to Rafael Nadal's split with his uncle and former coach Toni. The retired Swiss player has already warned the world No 1 that it didn't "pay off" the last time he parted ways with his long-time coach but said the split wasn't the same as Nadal and his uncle Toni with Nadal and Djokovic both now working with former Grand Slam champions in Carlos Moya and Goran Ivanisevic.

Djokovic announced early last month that he had parted ways with long-time coach Marian Vajda, a decision the pair reportedly came to at the end of the 2021 season. He is now working solely with Goran Ivanisevic in a move similar to when Nadal ended his lifelong partnership with his uncle Toni and began working with Carlos Moya.

Despite the similarities, retired Swiss pro Rosset has pointed out that Djokovic and Nadal's coaching changes still can't be compared as he told RTS: "Yes, but Moya has always been Rafa's big brother. They have a bond of several years also, the fact that Carlos helped the young Nadal at the time."

When Nadal and his uncle were set to end their professional partnership at the end of 2017, retired former world No 1 Moya joined the Spaniard's team to work alongside Toni before the elder Nadal stopped travelling as his nephew's coach. Djokovic brought Ivanisevic in ahead of Wimbledon in 2018 and he coached the Serb alongside Vajda until this year.

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But Rosset thought the tactics were completely different thanks to Moya's long-term investment in the current world No 4, as Nadal trained with the 1998 French Open champion before he had turned pro and