PODCAST - Alcaraz Claims US Open And World Number 1

ALCARAZ ON HIS LOVE OF PLAYING DROP SHOTS - ‘It’s natural for me, I always hit drop shots when I was a kid, I would say too many drop shots when I was a kid, so in training I’m trying not to hit drop shots, just to hit other shots and when I’m training the sets and stuff when I’m break point down, I’m trying to play the set without the drop shot’.ALCARAZ ON HIS DEVELOPING RIVALRY WITH JANNIK SINNER - ‘I’m going to be a better player thanks to him and I think for him it will be the same. I will push him to be a better player as Djokovic, Nadal and Federer did when thy were younger. He’s a nice person with a great team around him and we are great friends’.SINNER ON THE IMPROVEMENTS HE’S MAKING - ’Now we are working on me having more strength, we are working very hard in the gym. Sometimes when you finish matches when you feel slow, you have to do things to get faster. Sometimes when you don’t feel much strength on the backhand or forehand you have to work on that and so we are working very hard and I think I will be in a good shape after the US Open’.WAYNE FERREIRA ON THE STEADY PROGRESSION OF FRANCES TIAFOE - ‘With him in particular he had a lot of growing up to do. He came out on tour in his first year, did exceptionally well, played quarters of Australian Open, won Delray Beach and then just felt like it was easy and he sort of lost when it meant to be here day-in-day-out. We have to get up everyday at the right time, get to where we need to go, put in the effort, work as hard as we can, because the work that we do today is not going to give you the result tomorrow, it’s going to take time’.KAREN KHACHANOV ON TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THE TOP TEN - ’Since the grass-courts last year I started to play better-and-better, in the Olympics, Wimbledon quarter-finals I had better results in general and this year the goal is the same, I want to be back in the top 10, to win tournaments again and that is the main goal. I believe in myself and it’s a question of time and belief to be able to do that’.PLUS, ATP UNCOVERED TAKES A LOOK AT THE MENTALITY OF ANDREY RUBLEV- Podcast presented by US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark- Podcast guest, former WTA player Jill Craybas- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Chris Bowers, Ursin Caderas and Jill Craybas- Rublev Feature by ATP Uncovered