This week on the ATP Tennis Podcast…
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON HIS REMAINING GOALS FOR THE SEASON – “I think I said at the beginning of the year that my goal was to end between the first 15 players, but I never felt I was going to be No. 1 this soon. I feel the same guy, the same player, for me nothing changed but I want to end the year as No. 1. I have some good tournaments ahead and I want to do the best of myself in those tournaments and to end the year as No. 1.”
CASPER RUUD ON QUALIFYING FOR BACK-TO-BACK NITTO ATP FINALS – “It feels great. Last year was a crazy race towards the end there with four players racing for the last two spots and it came down to Paris, one of the last weeks of the year, but this year I’ve been able to reach it already and that’s a very, very nice feeling.”
HUBERT HURKACZ ON HIS DESIRE TO QUALIFY FOR TURIN AGAIN – “That would be something amazing to play there again, to play in front of such a great crowd in Turin. It was something I was always dreaming of as a kid, eight people qualifying for the final and that was great so it would be something special to play there again.”
HENRI LAAKSONEN ON HIS MENTALITY – “It takes time to learn who you really are and I still feel there are a few things I can do to improve in my tennis. Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka have been in front of me and It’s great for Switzerland to have such great players and I could learn a lot when they are practicing and playing matches, watching what they are doing and it was great for me to learn from the best.”
DAVID GOFFIN ON WHAT HE’S LEARNT OVER HIS CAREER – “When you get older you just realise how tough it is. It’s tougher physically and when you’re over thirty you start to feel pain that you’ve never felt before and all of sudden you realise what you just did before is now tough, so you just have to enjoy differently when you’re older.”
SEBASTIAN KORDA ON USING 3D GLASSES TO IMPROVE HIS REACTION TIME – “I do that six days a week, just kind of 15 minutes at night or during the day. You have eight balls and you have to track four of them as they bounce around at different speeds so I’ve been doing that for the last year of so to get my eyes better and I feel it’s really helped me with my speed on court and just using my brain a little better.”
PLUS ATP UNCOVERED SPEAK TO BOTH STAN WAWRINKA AND DOMINIC THIEM
– Show presented by Seb Lauzier
– Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Lee Goodall, Jill Craybas and Kate Flory
– Laaksonen, Wawrinka and Thiem features by ATP Uncovered
Source Tennis – ATP World Tour
