McEnroe received a call from Agassi (Picture: Golden/Getty)

Andre Agassi called John McEnroe ‘right away’ to confront him about comments made about Novak Djokovic and insisted that the Serb ‘deserves more’ than that.

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The American, who works closely with Djokovic, was unimpressed with his compatriot’s remarks, with McEnroe claiming the world No. 4 could go ‘off the rails’ like Tiger Woods.

McEnroe said: ‘The person that comes to mind immediately with Novak is not a tennis player, it’s actually a golfer: Tiger Woods.

‘When he [Woods] had the issues with his wife and then he seemed to go completely off the rails and has never been even close to being the same player.’


Djokovic was criticised by McEnroe (Picture: AFP/Getty)

But while Agassi suggested Djokovic was unfazed by the comments, he admitted he spoke with McEnroe about his behaviour.



‘You would be really surprised what fazes champions and what doesn’t faze champions,’ he exclusively told Metro.co.uk.

‘It’s not always predictable. A guy like me, that would land a lot harder and it would be more of a challenge for me.

‘I don’t think it’s more of a challenge for Novak. I think he’s a really good man who is comfortable in his own skin.

‘And he knows I’ve got his back. I reached out to John directly right away and told him he deserves more than that.

‘I told him how I felt about it and the hope is we all show as much judgement as possible and the words we use to choose or the comments we’ll choose to make.’

While Agassi – the Global Ambassador for Lavazza – wouldn’t go into details of the private conversation, he insisted that he felt the matter was now closed after he ‘dealt with it’.

He added: ‘I’m not going to go into details of the conversation.

‘Let’s put it this way, we dealt with it.’

Agassi was speaking on behalf of Lavazza who has just signed a new three-year deal to be the official coffee sponsor of Wimbledon.