This week on the ATP Tennis Podcast…
DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS DESIRE TO WIN – “I enjoy competition in general and if it’s an online computer game or racing against my friends, when there is competition one-on-one, I always want to beat my opponent. Many times it’s going to be by finding his weak spot.”
NICK KYRGIOS ON HIS EXPLOSIVE SERVE – “I feel like I wasn’t able to hit 220 consistently over the past few years and now I’m able to do that for fun. I was carrying a knee injury for the last couple of years that I think was really not allowing me to explode into my serve and not be as effective as I could, and I just feel like a different person from last year. Just my overall confidence and mentality, stepping up to the line I’m not thinking of much. I’m just getting up there, serving big first and second and usually if I’m hitting the spots, it’s pretty hard to break.”
JOSEPH GILBERT ON JENSON BROOKSBY’S LOSS TO DJOKOVIC AT THE 2021 US OPEN – “Those two games in the second set lasted half an hour and I could feel that on Jenson on the physical side. Djokovic bore down more and that physical toll, playing him over three out of five and that mental energy on Arthur Ashe that it takes to be out there for that long, with the peaks and the valleys with that kind of match, it was a great experience and we learned a lot from it.”
JOE SALISBURY ON BECOMING WORLD NO. 1 – “I found out that I was No. 1 after our second match in Miami. I just think it was excitement, it felt special and now that it’s happened, I just want to stay there for as long as possible. It’s not something I was expecting, but it’s been a long journey. I’m really enjoying it and I’m looking forward for everything else that’s to come as well.”
IT’S ALL ABOUT SERENA – COCO GAUFF AND FRANCES TIAFOE GO HEAD-TO-HEAD IN A QUIZ ABOUT THE GREAT CHAMPION
Podcast presented by Chris Bowers
Podcast guest – Jill Craybas
Interviews by Mike Cation, Seb Lauzier and Jill Craybas
Joe Salisbury feature courtesy of ATP Uncovered
