PODCAST - Alcaraz, Thiem, Wawrinka, Medvedev & Many More

CARLOS ALCARAZ ON HIS DESIRE TO RETURN TO WORLD NUMBER ONE - ‘It’s a great goal for me, but it’s going to be really tough as Djokovic deserves so much to be there, but I’m really hungry to go to the tournaments, to win them and to return to number one, that’s a big goal for me this year’.TOMAS BELLUCI ON HIS DECISION TO RETIRE - ‘I’m happy with what I’ve achieved in my career. I made the decision in the middle of last year as I played a tournament and wasn’t feeling well physically. I was having so many injuries, so I think that was the moment when I felt I need to choose different for my life and that was the moment’.DOMINIC THIEM ON GETTING MAINTAINING A WORK AND LIFE BALANCE - ‘I’m constantly thinking of a life beyond tennis. I think that tennis was, for a long time, the only part of my life, which is good in one way but if you’re getting older it’s not good anymore, you need a life beyond tennis, you need other thoughts in your head, other things to do and the injury time out and tough time to come back helped me in those terms and I’m very happy about it’.STAN WAWRINKA ON HIS DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE TOP - ‘My game is high, when I enter the court I believe I can beat any player in front of me. Now I have to do it and I have to do it in repetition in the same week, but the year is long and I’m always looking for the full year, to the big picture, controlling what I can control and the matches and results will come’.ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON THE NEXT WAVE OF FRENCH PLAYERS COMING THROUGH - ‘It’s a new generation for sure with Monfils not playing for the last year, Tsonga of course retired, Gilles Simon retired, Lucas Pouille who was really good, Richard Gasquet still shows he can win, but behind that there is a new generation coming, so hopefully we can do, maybe not as good as them, but get as close as possible’.FABRICE MARTIN ON LEARNING FROM DIFFERENT COACHING SYSTEMS - ‘When I went back to France I felt it was more about technique, more tactical, whereas in the States it was more focussed on you and your game and on your strengths and so sometimes it fits you and sometimes it doesn’t , but I used a bit of everything’.PLUS DANIIL MEDVEDEV ANSWERS QUIZ QUESTIONS ON HIS OWN CAREER- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Richard Connelly, Chris Bowers and Candy Reid- Medvedev feature by ATP Uncovered