PODCAST - Davidovich Fokina, Schwartzman, Berrettini, Paul, Baez, Ritschard & Wolfgang Oswald

ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA ON WHY HE HAS A TATTOO OF A TSUNAMI  - ‘My mentality it like wherever I go I have to erase it, but my coach says I’m more like a volcano because he knows I have a lot of energy inside of me and I don’t know how to control that energy, but now I’m learning to focus on just one point and that’s it’.WOLFGANG OSWALD ON DEVELOPING TAYLOR FRITZ’S PHYSIQUE - ‘He’s become a lot stronger and that has helped his movement and he’s more resilient. He has a hyper-mobile body, so he’s very flexible, so those type of athletes need more stability and strength, so that’s where we focus. It’s hard to do it all as once as a tennis player because you still have to practice on court, so you kind of have to trickle things in over a few years’.TOMMY PAUL ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘I’d say the biggest thing for me to overcome is a lapse of focus, just staying locked in and that’s been the biggest thing for a while. I mean anytime you’re playing on centre court or a night session or somewhere where there’s a packed crowd, the pressure rises, but it’s also more fun and I feel that all of the matches that are the most fun, come with the most pressure. As they say, pressure is a privilege’.SEBASTIAN BAEZ ON 2022 AS A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR - ‘I’ve tried to be better at the little things, on the court, outside the court, with the recovery. For example, if you have physical training at eight in the morning I want to be there at seven fifty. You control your body, your things and your team of course. All the best players are a little bit crazy with these things, to try to do everything a little bit more perfect than yesterday and I think that’s the difference to the other players’.ALEXANDER RITSCHARD ON NEARLY LOSING HIS ARM - ‘It was a very strange situation, I was in the gym working out and then I felt a sting in my shoulder and then it turned out to be a huge deal where my artery clogged up and no more blood flowed to my arm. I can only go by what they told me, but they said that they had to make a decision in the next five minutes and the artery was not opening and then I guess I got lucky and it opened and the blood started flowing again and they were able to make sure that my arm received blood’. PLUS DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN TAKES A QUIZ ON HIS OWN CAREER AND MATTEO BERRETTINI LOOKS BACK ON HIS RUN TO THE 2021 NITTO ATP FINALS - Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Candy Reid, Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers- Tommy Paul, Diego Schwartzman and Matteo Berrettini features by ATP Uncovered