This week on the ATP Tennis Podcast…
DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS GROWING APPRECIATION OF CLAY COURTS – “Friendship, I don’t think I love it, I love hard courts, my only love, in tennis of course, but I definitely like clay courts much more now.”
HOLGER RUNE ON HIS DESIRE TO BE THE BEST – “If you try to see always the big picture, rather than the small picture, you will understand why I have to do this. Without tennis I’m sure I wouldn’t have the same mentality as I have today, so it’s kind of built who I am and I fell in love with it from the beginning.”
STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON SACRIFICES – “I have been very professional in my everyday life and somehow I wish I could be more relaxed in that sense and let go, but at the same time it’s a blessing that I get to be so professional and get to experience pressure in my everyday life, because I feel it makes me better, but there are times when you get fed up with the routines.”
FABIAN MAROZSAN ON HIS VICTORY OVER CARLOS ALCARAZ – “Everything was perfect, the crowds, the weather, it was amazing and I don’t know what happened during the points. I just hit back every ball and just tried to do my best and it just happened, so I don’t know what to say. He’s the best in the sport so I’m really happy about this.”
MAGDA LINETTE’S COACH MARK GELLARD ON HOW TENNIS SHOULD USE DATA MORE – “Tennis is quite far behind in a lot of these things and I think as coaches we don’t use half the resources we should be using and a lot of it is how we interpret the information. What I’ve done with Magda the last few years if focus less on the opponent and instead focus on what we do well. Statistics are good for two reasons, they tell you what almost always happens and what hardly ever happens.”
FELICIANO LOPEZ ON RAFAEL NADAL – “I feel sad that at this stage of his career he can’t do what he really loves to do, which is playing tennis. I saw Roger Federer last year when he had to retire and the way he did it was very sad and I just hope this isn’t going to be the same for Rafa and whenever he recovers from his injury it’s going to be great news and I just want him to play tennis and finish his career on his own terms and I don’t think it’s going to be nice to see another case similar to Roger.”
JANNIK SINNER ON HOW PLAYERS VIEW THE ABSENCE OF RAFAEL NADAL – “You can see it from the draw, when you see Rafa or Novak in the draw it makes a little bit of difference for sure because you know what they are capable of, but in another way, slowly the new generation is coming to mix up the draw, so it is good.”
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON THE NEW GENERATION – “New generation is here already. Alcaraz is number one from Monday and I think it’s good for our sport that we have new faces and new guys coming up, it’s normal. I’m personally still trying to hang in there with all of them and I still have the hunger to keep going, so let’ see how far I’m going to play.”
– Show presented by Seb Lauzier
– Interviews by Ursin Caderas and Candy Reid
– Features by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
Source Tennis – ATP World Tour
