PODCAST - 2023 Wimbledon Preview

CARLOS ALCARAZ ON PLAYING ON GRASS - 'You know for me it’s great because I just have to focus on the movement and not on my style. If I move well I think it’s going to be great. I used to watch Federer on grass, I watched videos because you want to be like Federer, but it’s impossible, but he is my role model on grass. The elegance that he hits the shots that he plays, he moved really well and made the tennis on grass easy’.

HOLGER RUNE ON DREAMING ABOUT PLAYING AT WIMBLEDON - ‘I have always dreamt about winning this tournament and I think one day it will suit me well. I like to play aggressive and come forward to the net, which in theory should work well on the grass, but I want to be happy and not too stressed when I play and it’s very important to stay positive’.

MATE PAVIC ON FOLLOWING IN GORAN IVANISEVIC’S FOOTSTEPS - ‘We all grew up in Croatia on Goran’s Wimbledon in 2001 and that kind of sticks to you that Wimbledon is there, that’s Wimbledon and everything else is down, you want to win it since you were a kid, you’re dreaming of it since a kid and it’s a special feeling’.

TIM HENMAN ON THE CHANGE HE WOULD MAKE TO THE GRASS SEASON - ‘If I could change one thing in the sport it would be the variation of surfaces. I think we’ve got too uniform, so I would make grass a little quicker. It was becoming a bit or a serving competition when I was playing and was that appealing, but the level of tennis these days is phenomenal, but it’s too one dimensional’.

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON THE THREAT NICK KYRGIOS POSES - ‘You know Nick Kyrgios is a threat because on a good day he can play great tennis, he doesn’t play all year and then just shows up on one tournament on grass, serves big and plays like he has nothing to lose, so he is a very tricky opponent to play against’.

STEFAN EDBERG ON HIS EARLY MEMORIES OF WIMBLEDON - ‘I can still remember the time when I first got to Wimbledon in 1983, when you walk on top of that hill, you actually see Wimbledon, just the site, seeing Wimbledon in front of you was the thing that you dreamt about going to one day’.

- Show presented by Chris Bowers - Podcast guest Jill Craybas - Interviews by Richard Connelly, Seb Lauzier, Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas - Edberg & Wilander feature by ATP Uncovered