Who Is Borna Coric?
TENNISINSIDEOUT.COM PLAYER PROFILE
Name: Borna Coric
Known in Tennis Fandom As: “Porna Coric”, thanks to his rather breathily suggestive grunt and one particular MTO that sounded incredibly X-rated.
Val has named him: “Baby Borna butt”, which is usually shortened to “Baby Borna”. Is gradually being upgraded to “Borna babe.”
The lovely Fritz pass AND the slo-mo of Baby Borna butt. The woman at the end represents all of us. #Coric #Fritz pic.twitter.com/xA2Pk5ot1T
— Tennis Inside Out (@TennisInsideOut) March 14, 2018
Birthday: November 14, 1996
Country: Croatia
Twitter: @borna_coric
Instagram: bornacoric
In a nutshell: Borna Coric is a ridiculously attractive player with a perfectly balanced physique and muscular thighs that may inspire impure thoughts in susceptible fans. He’s an excellent mover, a “do-or-die” fighter, and an incredibly tactical player whose crafty repertoire of differing paces and angles and spin are often underestimated by those who wrote him off early as a one-note defensive player. A natural lefty who plays right-handed, Coric excels more with power and control on the backhand side, but continuing improvements to his forehand and serve have greatly increased the range of his game and it’s really borne fruit in 2018.
Baby Borna made quite an impression as a teenager, moving up more than 200 spots in 2014 to break into the Top 100–one month shy of his 18th birthday. His stellar work ethic and skill, which contributed to an early career win over then-World-number-3 Rafael Nadal, landed Borna an ATP “Star of Tomorrow” award at the end-of-year festivities at the O2 Arena.
The lithe Croatian worked steadily on the smaller goals that would hopefully lead to one of his biggest — breaking into the Top 10. After beating Nadal again at the Cincinnati Masters event in August 2016, however, Coric suffered a knee injury that required surgery and months off the tour. Working his way back up the rankings took some time, but beating Roger Federer for the title in Halle, reaching a semifinal in Indian Wells, and the final in Shanghai this year has helped him rise up to #12 in the rankings (he briefly reached #11 in the live rankings, but Karen Khachanov slipped past after winning his first Masters title in Paris). Coric still has a small chance to head to the ATP finals in London as an alternate.
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Val has had the privilege of photographing Borna at Cincy since 2015, so the Tennis Inside Out collection of photographs is rather extensive. Here are a few of our faves, beginning with a fine example of an impressive shoulders-to-tiny-waist-to-Baby-Borna-butt-ratio…
Want to see more pics of Borna like these? After you’ve read all the posts tagged for Borna on our site, head on over to the TennisInsideOut Instagram for additional photos of the #NextGen star as well as lots of other goodies from both the men’s and women’s tennis tours!
Speaking of Insta, Borna’s posts and stories are fantastic for his fans. He posts updates about his matches and where he’s off to next….
He also posts pics of his time with his team as well as other dudes on the tour:
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Getting used to conditions in Shenzen! Great hit with @andyseppio #atpshenzhen #tennis #tennistv
And yes, that’s right, Borna is not afraid to entice his fans with some seductive photos…
We’re not sure we want to know what’s going on up there….but we’re guessing you’ve figured out that Borna has an interesting sense of humor…
P.S. Check out Borna’s exchange with Fabio Fognini in the comments on the Insta post above.
P.P.S. His Twitter has fun stuff, too.
He took a better joystick, simple as that pic.twitter.com/9A33vqzXC0
— borna coric (@borna_coric) October 16, 2018
Two things you should definitely know about Borna: 1) He very much loves his country, and 2) More than anything or anyone, he really loves his sister Bruna.
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Recharging batteries with my favourite person Back on the road tomorrow, next stop Paris
And finally, some awesome videos to give you a sense of the man in action:
(Edited: 11/4/2018)
