PODCAST - Rublev, Ljubicic, Vicente, Khachanov and Rune

FERNANDO VICENTE ON ANDREY RUBLEV’S BELIEF - ‘I think he really believes, but the problem in all of these quarter-finals, in seven of them we didn’t really have a chance because we faced better players and he was young, but in one of them against Marin Cilic, he didn’t really act good in the fifth, but he’s ready to cross the line’.

IVAN LJUBICIC ON BEING BACK ON TOUR AS A COACH AND CONSULTANT - ‘I’m back on tour as ever since Covid with Roger Federer he didn’t really travel much. Everything is more involved now but I love it, I love the tour, I’ve been on tour for more than 25 years now and I’m not planning to go anywhere’.

LUCA VAN ASSCHE ON HIS AMBITION - ‘In five years I hope that I will be a Grand Slam winner, number one in the world and that I will be a very famous player, a loved one, so yes, that’s it’.

KAREN KHACHANOV ON DEALING WITH THE MENTAL SIDE OF THE GAME - ‘It’s a process but I would say that you don’t over think, you just focus on the current process. On a daily basis you can get stressed in a way, more nervous that you can’t control and it becomes like a hurricane from week-to-week and from last year I feel like I’m in more control’.

HOLGER RUNE ON BORIS BECKER JOINING HIS TEAM - ‘Boris and I have known each other for some years and he was writing to me, showing me that he liked me as a person, as a player, so the last few weeks we’ve got in touch and hopefully we can be successful’. 

MIKE JAMES ON HIS ROLE AS PERFORMANCE ANALYST - ‘We’re trying to pull everything together to try to gain five or six points a tennis match and if you’re talking about someone like Holger Rune, you’re at Everest base camp, you can see the summit, so how do you buy an extra two hundred points a season to get to number one in the world’.

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- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers - Interviews by Chris Bowers, Seb Lauzier, and Candy Reid - Features by ATP Uncovered