France, March 28 -- Tennis world number one NovakDjokovic continued his preparations for the clay court season on Thursday after announcing a split with coach Goran Ivanisevic.

Ivanisevic, who claimed the singles title at Wimbledon in 2001, joinedDjokovic's team in 2019 and helped the Serb win 12 Grand Slam titles.

Djokovic revealed the split with the 52-year-old on social media and posted a picture of himself and Ivanisevic playing the board game Parchisi.

"Our on court chemistry had its ups and downs, but our friendship was always rock solid," said Djokovic.

In fact, I'm proud to say (not sure he is) that apart from winning tournaments together we also had a side battle in Parchisi going on ... for many years.

"And that tournament ...