After collecting 13 Grand Slam titles, Federer has set the benchmark of how to succeed without having a full-time coach by his side and it is a strategy Ivanovic hopes will work for her at Melbourne Park.

"I already do know a lot about tennis and about other players [and] I think I'm very young and maybe a full-time coach could still be very helpful," the Serbian said as she looked ahead to the start of the Open on Monday.

"[But] at this moment, I think I can handle it the way it is."

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