Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the sit Down.
Speaker 1: I'm Mattrolope, a writer and editor for osopen dot Com.
Speaker 2: And I'm Vi Christie, Managing editor for Australian Tennis magazine
Speaker 2: and Matt, why are we sitting down this week with
Speaker 2: Tristan Schoolcap?
Speaker 1: Well, if we were lucky enough to connect with Tristan
Speaker 1: while he was back in Brisbane for a training block.
Speaker 1: He played almost twenty tournaments in the first seven months
Speaker 1: of the season and decided he just needed a break,
Speaker 1: so coming home he enjoyed the chance to reset and refresh,
Speaker 1: and we actually connected with him the day before he
Speaker 1: was due to fly to North America and the US
Speaker 1: hardcourt season is probably where Tristan's had his best tennis.
Speaker 1: It's where he won his first Grand Slam match at
Speaker 1: the US Open in twenty twenty four, and then in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five he reached his first ATP quarterfinal in
Speaker 1: lost car Boss. He reached the second round of the
Speaker 1: Canada Masters after beating joelf on Seca. That's when he
Speaker 1: cracked the top hundred for the first time, and then
Speaker 1: he returned to the US Open second round last year
Speaker 1: with a great five set win. So it's been a
Speaker 1: very happy hunting ground for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was great to check in with Tristan,
Speaker 2: who has had I guess a really considered approach to
Speaker 2: his development. He was kind of just getting started in
Speaker 2: his career when COVID struck, so like all players, he
Speaker 2: had to take a break. But he's since gone on
Speaker 2: to achieve some really great things, including that incredible match
Speaker 2: over Jennick Sinner at the Australian Open.
Speaker 1: Tristan school Kate, thanks very much for joining us today
Speaker 1: on the sit Down Podcast. Where in the world do
Speaker 1: we find you?
Speaker 3: I'm Brisbane at the moment. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's great, great to see you. You're in
Speaker 1: Brisbane in the middle of the Tennesseeason. What brought you
Speaker 1: back home?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just going back a couple weeks training, just
Speaker 4: getting out the hams to wheel a little bit and
Speaker 4: just getting prepared for the North American summer.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's completely fair enough, was the What was the
Speaker 1: best thing about returning? Like, how long have you been
Speaker 1: home for since we beat?
Speaker 3: I love being back training a couple of weeks now.
Speaker 4: I think it's just yeah, resetting, refreshing before getting back
Speaker 4: into more tournaments.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how has the how has the refresh been,
Speaker 1: because we understand you're back off to the States.
Speaker 3: Is it tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I head to Canada tomorrow hopefully get it to
Speaker 4: Montreal and then yeah it bounce to Cincinnati a lead
Speaker 4: an event in the US Open qualities.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 1: So did the did the couple of weeks home give
Speaker 1: you the refresh that you that you needed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean by the twenty four hour journey back, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was good.
Speaker 3: It's I think when I needed.
Speaker 4: And yeah, just got over the jet leg, so look
Speaker 4: forward to getting some more when I go back.
Speaker 5: Tristan.
Speaker 2: We always love to sort of take a player when
Speaker 2: we talk to them back to the start of their
Speaker 2: tennis journey. So yeah, we would love if you could
Speaker 2: tell us about your start in tennis in Perth, which
Speaker 2: we understand with your dad who is a tennis coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean so a while back now, but yeah,
Speaker 4: I started at my low Or school Double few Primary
Speaker 4: and my dad used to run lessons there, so I
Speaker 4: joined a group and I was playing a lot.
Speaker 3: Then went to the.
Speaker 4: Club he was coaching, Clamont Lawn Tennis Club and from
Speaker 4: there I played at a few different clubs in Perth
Speaker 4: and eventually went to the National Academy well Talent Development
Speaker 4: Squad State Academy and then eventually the National Academy there
Speaker 4: and worked a lot with Andrew Roberts.
Speaker 3: He was a head coach there at the time.
Speaker 4: Adam Carey, Alex Jago and Tom George a few of
Speaker 4: the coaches that helped me through my years from sort
Speaker 4: of twelve through eighteen amazing.
Speaker 2: And I read a story I think it was on
Speaker 2: the ATP website actually, and it referenced to your dad
Speaker 2: being a coach now in the Netherlands. I think it
Speaker 2: was from a year ago, so that may not still
Speaker 2: be true, but I was kind of intrigued by that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I grew up there and spent a long time
Speaker 4: in Australia too, and now coaches back there.
Speaker 1: Kind of ever knew that connection actually go.
Speaker 2: And you know Perth is famous for its its grass courts.
Speaker 2: Was that the first surface that you played on? And
Speaker 2: if so, how did that shape your game?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I started a club with sixteen grass courts and two
Speaker 4: synthetic grass so yeah, no high courts or clay fair
Speaker 4: adjustment the grounds and won't be too happy, but the
Speaker 4: bounces weren't too high, but no, I think yeah, it
Speaker 4: shaped some of the way I played today.
Speaker 5: And what's what's your favorite surface?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: I think grass for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean the season's not really too long, but but yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it just has a bit of a point
Speaker 4: of difference and I spent a long time on it,
Speaker 4: so I really enjoyed it nice.
Speaker 1: I would have like to have played my first tennis
Speaker 1: sont Real, grasp Onto car here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: But we're very interested.
Speaker 1: Both of us, to kind of get your take on
Speaker 1: like Perth is a bit of a tennis ecosystem. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of talent coming out of Perth, your generation,
Speaker 1: some younger players, and you've also talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting with John Piers over there. Alicia Mullick lives there.
Speaker 1: There's a really good Casey the Laquas from there. There's
Speaker 1: masses of talent out in the West.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Does it feel like it's been a bit of a
Speaker 1: breeding ground for you and having that kind of great
Speaker 1: tennis culture, lots of people to hit with and kind
Speaker 1: of be around at that high level. Is that kind
Speaker 1: of what tennis is like in Perth, even though it's
Speaker 1: a little bit further away from some of the other cities.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you said it yourself just then, it's
Speaker 4: pretty far away. But no, I think there's a lot
Speaker 4: of good players that come through. I was pretty lucky.
Speaker 4: I think with the time I did there was a
Speaker 4: few guys older than me, which helped to understand the
Speaker 4: level for training too. So you guys went to college
Speaker 4: and yeah, I was able to sort of draw on
Speaker 4: that build the experience through playing with some better players.
Speaker 4: But also yeah, we had good players sort of coming
Speaker 4: after me too, and it was a good, good bunch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good training, So I'm really happy with that.
Speaker 1: When and you talk about the players coming up under you, like,
Speaker 1: for example, Talia Gibson's had an incredible year, Taylor Preston's
Speaker 1: also emerging there both West Australians. Do you take his
Speaker 1: special interest in seeing what those players are doing when
Speaker 1: they come from the same place as you do you
Speaker 1: follow their progress any more closely?
Speaker 4: I think you definitely hold onto a little bit of
Speaker 4: our Yeah, both from Perth so well, you sort of
Speaker 4: want to see them do well, and it's nice to
Speaker 4: see that players can make it coming from Perth and
Speaker 4: being so far away. I guess from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think it's great. Hopefully there can be
Speaker 4: a new guy coming through, maybe a little younger, but no,
Speaker 4: the girls are doing great.
Speaker 3: It's awesome to see.
Speaker 1: And when I guess, with that great upbringing or introduction
Speaker 1: into tennis in Perth, when did you kind of start
Speaker 1: dreaming about a professional career or realizing you were good
Speaker 1: enough to actually make a go of what you're doing today.
Speaker 3: I'm not too sure.
Speaker 4: I think it's something you always dream of, definitely, but yeah,
Speaker 4: when it becomes a reality, I don't know. I think
Speaker 4: I he was sort of eighteen, did well in junior's.
Speaker 4: I hadn't played a whole heap. I did school normally,
Speaker 4: so barely played. I just played in the school holidays
Speaker 4: and yeah, I took a your off UNI and sort
Speaker 4: of played all the junior events around the world finish
Speaker 4: I think just inside top thirty.
Speaker 3: So that gave me some belief.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's quite late though, like to be not realizing
Speaker 1: or not really thinking you can make a go of
Speaker 1: it until about eighteen went What was it that clicked
Speaker 1: for you if you weren't playing as like that full
Speaker 1: junior schedule the same way some others do.
Speaker 4: I mean I was always around the top few maybe
Speaker 4: through my whole junior career, so I always had that belief.
Speaker 3: But no, I think.
Speaker 4: Playing internationally, seeing myself against some of the best players
Speaker 4: in the world, I gave me some confidence. Obviously, the
Speaker 4: pro to was so different and everyone improves at different speeds.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's been a fair journey. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: glad the way I did it was the way I
Speaker 4: did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was always really interested that you did make
Speaker 2: a priority of finishing school, Like how do you think
Speaker 2: kind of that's helped you in the longer term.
Speaker 4: I mean I wasn't the smartest guy, but I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: I did pretty well. I tried balances as best I could.
Speaker 4: But yeah, look, I think just having mates other interests,
Speaker 4: it would make going to training really exciting and something different.
Speaker 3: Like I'd rock up some days I'd miss maybe my.
Speaker 4: First period of the day or first class, and I
Speaker 4: mean like wet hair from a shower and my mates
Speaker 4: to be like, oh what even do obviously training and yeah,
Speaker 4: each night sort of finish training, go study, fall asleep
Speaker 4: at the desk half the time. No, it was great
Speaker 4: I still talked to a lot of my mates from
Speaker 4: school and keeps me grounded a bit.
Speaker 2: That's it's such a kind of busy life for a teenager.
Speaker 2: What did you love most at school?
Speaker 4: Oh, recess and lunch. No, I think just like having
Speaker 4: a close group of mates. Semi competitive, obviously with results
Speaker 4: at school, but more so just yeah, socializing, having a
Speaker 4: bit of fun and not taking it all too serious.
Speaker 2: Sure, and as I understand it, you were pretty closely
Speaker 2: connected with the Hopman Cup at various stages. You were
Speaker 2: a ball kid for Joe Wilford's songer, you also became
Speaker 2: a hitting partner. How did those experiences shape your ambitions?
Speaker 3: I guess it was great. I mean I loved it.
Speaker 4: It was kind of our only tournament there, so it's
Speaker 4: nice to see all the pros being so close to
Speaker 4: the top players. Our best chance of hopefully grabbing a
Speaker 4: racket from one of the players was to be a
Speaker 4: ball kid, but that never eventuated. And hitting with some
Speaker 4: of the pros was great. Good to see the level.
Speaker 4: And yeah, mix it with some of the big, big
Speaker 4: players and you I.
Speaker 2: Think we're a particular fan of Joe Wilfrid Soonger. What
Speaker 2: did you love about his game and did you have
Speaker 2: a chance to spend much time with him?
Speaker 3: Not too much.
Speaker 4: He was always my favorite player growing up, just the
Speaker 4: way he sort of played. He was pretty entertaining, played
Speaker 4: a little bit different to most guys. He was pretty aggressive,
Speaker 4: living around the court a bit, and yeah, I always
Speaker 4: love watching him, So it's pretty cool to walk at
Speaker 4: him a few times such as great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure recall interviewing you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you would remember, but it was
Speaker 2: at a pro tour event in Geelong in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: and your career was sort of just starting to gather
Speaker 2: momentum at that time, and that very day we learned
Speaker 2: that Indian Wells had been canceled due to COVID. So
Speaker 2: it kind of I often think about that and think
Speaker 2: about how it impacted players such as yourself who were
Speaker 2: just starting to come through at that time.
Speaker 5: Do you do you ever think about that?
Speaker 3: Definitely? Yeah, it almost gets swept under the rug a
Speaker 3: little bit. It was pretty hectic time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at that point I was deciding between going to
Speaker 4: college or not, decided not to, played some pro tournaments
Speaker 4: and then everything stopped. So yeah, went back to Perth
Speaker 4: trained for a few months and then found myself here
Speaker 4: in Brisbane, started training here and playing some wtrs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and about a year later went over and played some
Speaker 4: futures in the States and in Europe too. Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was a very different time, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: And at that time you had just joined the Australian
Speaker 2: Davis Cup team, I think it was in Adelaide. Well,
Speaker 2: maybe tell us about you know, those memories and what
Speaker 2: kind of inspiration you got from that experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was lucky enough to be Orange Boy, which
Speaker 3: is great.
Speaker 4: I knew a lot of the guys from the team,
Speaker 4: so it was cool to be around that and yeah,
Speaker 4: I understand the Yeah, the honor it is to play
Speaker 4: for your country. So it was pretty epic. Some of
Speaker 4: the matches are pretty close, they won with the celebrations
Speaker 4: were good. And I found myself in Geelong play in
Speaker 4: a future the.
Speaker 1: Next week and then yes, and then everything everything well
Speaker 1: everything halted, maybe completely change, but I guess I guess
Speaker 1: it also highlights something the closeness You've mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: of times with the other Australian plays, and I guess
Speaker 1: our as Australian plays is that unique aspect that we
Speaker 1: have to travel so far where other side of the world.
Speaker 1: Does that make having that connection with the other Australians
Speaker 1: even more important or special? Like kind of what how
Speaker 1: do you gear your trips around? Like are there a
Speaker 1: few of you that travel together or do you hit
Speaker 1: together dinners together? Is there that culture on tour among
Speaker 1: the Aussies?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's pretty good camaraderie. Everyone obviously understands
Speaker 4: the demands of traveling and playing as a pro from Australia,
Speaker 4: so it's important to have mates at the tournaments it are. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it makes things a little easier, that's for sure, but
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it's very competitive.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it helps to have a bunch of guys who,
Speaker 3: yeah you can have a laugh with.
Speaker 1: Are there which who are your best mates among the Aussies?
Speaker 4: I played a lotbviously grown up with Dane and Rink.
Speaker 4: We both are the same age, oh, the.
Speaker 3: Three of us.
Speaker 4: So going through juniors to the pros, yeah, we all
Speaker 4: sort of ebbed and flows through the rankings, but more
Speaker 4: or less we're playing the same stuff now, so it's
Speaker 4: been pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is cool.
Speaker 1: And speaking of all that travel, like looking preparing for
Speaker 1: this interview and looking at some of the places you've played.
Speaker 1: You played almost on every continent. What would you say
Speaker 1: is maybe one of the more far flung locations you
Speaker 1: found self playing professional tennis or a memorable travel experience
Speaker 1: because of that, you know, unusual.
Speaker 4: Path played some tournaments in Cairo. Oh yeah, that was
Speaker 4: pretty hectic. I went there with Lee too, and we've
Speaker 4: had some pretty good stories come out of that one.
Speaker 3: It's a fair trip.
Speaker 1: Is there one place you'd love to return to of
Speaker 1: those more remote or exotic locations you played?
Speaker 3: Not there? I mean I've played some futures in Sardinia
Speaker 3: and Italy.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it was a clay court tournament which it
Speaker 4: stayed sort of in a resort or some accommodation, not
Speaker 4: far but right on the ocean. It was really really nice,
Speaker 4: but obviously a bit of a trip to get to.
Speaker 1: Her good things about Sardinia one day one day And
Speaker 1: one other thing we we're interested to get your take on.
Speaker 1: Is this thing that we hear a lot with tennis
Speaker 1: players talking about there being such slim margins between the
Speaker 1: top hundred and the players existing just outside that bracket
Speaker 1: on the Challenger Tour, and that there really isn't that
Speaker 1: much difference in the level. So it's just kind of wondering,
Speaker 1: given you've kind of you've existed between both spaces in
Speaker 1: your career, what is the difference. What is the difference
Speaker 1: between being a player inside the top hundred consistently versus
Speaker 1: someone that's just.
Speaker 3: On the cusp?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I mean, perfect example, has been six months,
Speaker 4: I guess the start of twenty twenty five, building up
Speaker 4: to being in the top hundred, staying there for about
Speaker 4: six to eight months, and then now just slipping out
Speaker 4: a little bit as well.
Speaker 3: I think it comes down to.
Speaker 4: Winning semis, winning finals of challenges, making a couple of breakthroughs,
Speaker 4: and some bigger tournaments, and that could come down to
Speaker 4: one or two tire breaks, a couple sets here and there,
Speaker 4: and yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Seems seems like a long way, but it is not much.
Speaker 4: And I guess the guys who are on the tour
Speaker 4: and they're in the top hundred week in week out,
Speaker 4: I think their worst level is just a bit better
Speaker 4: than the guys who are hovering outside. Maybe the top
Speaker 4: level might be a little bit better too, so they
Speaker 4: can make some big runs at some big events, but yeah,
Speaker 4: the day to day.
Speaker 6: Level is not much different. It's just yeah, consistency over
Speaker 6: that fifty two week period and that bit about the
Speaker 6: tie breaks it hinging on such small margins. Is that
Speaker 6: confidence building?
Speaker 3: Definitely? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I lost a fifth set tiebreak Tomnsic and
Speaker 4: it's like a round of US Open twenty four. A
Speaker 4: year later, I'm playing first round and one seven six
Speaker 4: and the fifth and senago. So we lose both of those.
Speaker 4: You're probably pretty shattered you win both of those. Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I guess we'll never know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, interesting, Well, yeah, you really stepped into the
Speaker 2: spotlight at the Australian Open when you faced Jannick Sinner
Speaker 2: and you were only one of only two players to
Speaker 2: take a set off him that year.
Speaker 5: How do you look back on that? You know, that
Speaker 5: was the biggest match of your career so far.
Speaker 4: Really, I'd obviously played a match on such a big
Speaker 4: stage in front of so many people.
Speaker 3: It was really nice to have the crowd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally behind me, and I'm just glad I played
Speaker 4: a good match, went out there and did what I
Speaker 4: wanted to do. Obviously finished up second best, but there
Speaker 4: was a good chance that most guys were going to
Speaker 4: do that anyway.
Speaker 3: But I really enjoyed. Obviously, this is train open as
Speaker 3: a whole.
Speaker 4: I won my first major match there, so that was
Speaker 4: already a great achievement. And then two, yeah, I have
Speaker 4: a match like that was fantastic. Plenty of good memories
Speaker 4: and something I remember for a very long time.
Speaker 5: Was there anything that you learned about yourself in that match?
Speaker 3: I could play semi decent.
Speaker 4: I think it just gave me a lot of confidence
Speaker 4: just in the way I play, the brand of tennis
Speaker 4: I was working towards, and it probably helped with yeah,
Speaker 4: believing I could keep climbing up the rankings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I could test the best in the world,
Speaker 3: it was a pretty good start.
Speaker 1: We understand our colleague Simon Ray, who's in the who
Speaker 1: heads up Tennis Australia's Data and insights team. He was
Speaker 1: in your entourage that night, and we know that you
Speaker 1: are a bit of a believer in data and analytics
Speaker 1: and using that in your career, so we were interested
Speaker 1: to know, like, yeah, how did you kind of tap
Speaker 1: into that, what appealed to you about that side of
Speaker 1: the game, and what kind of what's brought to you
Speaker 1: or what do you get out of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it can help to make a little
Speaker 4: difference here and there. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: you've got to hit the ball in the lines. But
Speaker 4: if it comes down to a couple of big points,
Speaker 4: tiebreaks like we talked about before, and trying to hold on,
Speaker 4: maybe somewhere he might serve or a week aside under pressure,
Speaker 4: things like that can maybe make a couple of points
Speaker 4: of difference.
Speaker 1: Has knowing that, like tapping into those analytics and working
Speaker 1: with Simon and people in that team, has that kind
Speaker 1: of made you view the game differently or noticings you
Speaker 1: might not have noticed.
Speaker 3: Before, maybe slightly. I think it just helps with the preparation.
Speaker 4: And yeah, going into an exam, if you didn't study,
Speaker 4: he probably didn't have much of a chance. But if
Speaker 4: that helped maybe a little bit, Yeah, obviously I was
Speaker 4: happy to do so. And yeah, I think it gives
Speaker 4: you that clarity and confidence under pressure too.
Speaker 2: Okay, nice, You're coming into part of the year that
Speaker 2: we've sort of touched on already that you've historically done
Speaker 2: had some great results at. So you won your first
Speaker 2: Grand Slam match at the US Open in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Atp quarterfinal in twenty twenty five, that was your first quarterfinal,
Speaker 2: you made the top one hundred. Yeah, you've had some
Speaker 2: big wins in the US. You must be looking forward
Speaker 2: to returning to that part of the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm got to bring a lot of changes of clothesans,
Speaker 4: But no, I.
Speaker 3: Like the conditions there.
Speaker 4: I seem to play well, enjoyed that time of year,
Speaker 4: and yeah, I mean it's crazy to say that's already
Speaker 4: the last Slam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but all the events before they're really really nice.
Speaker 4: And even afterwards going to Asia and playing there is
Speaker 4: also good for me. So glad I could get a
Speaker 4: couple weeks training in and yeah, ready to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And of those big wins that I just mentioned,
Speaker 2: there was Von Saka in Canada. Then you had a
Speaker 2: first top fifty win over son Ago and that incredible
Speaker 2: match at the US Open. I think it was four
Speaker 2: and a half hours, almost over over five sets.
Speaker 3: Take us back to that one, Yeah, it was. It
Speaker 3: was an epic obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a few demons in the head from the year before,
Speaker 4: played on the same court, and yeah, it was up
Speaker 4: two sets of love, had a couple of match points.
Speaker 4: I ended up losing seven to six in the fifth.
Speaker 4: So it was a pretty long afternoon. Evening and the
Speaker 4: same thing happened, except yeah, I found a way in
Speaker 4: that tiebreak and it was a fair display of emotion.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was obviously just a testament to the
Speaker 4: work I've been doing, and yeah, how happy I was
Speaker 4: after that, So it was pretty epic.
Speaker 1: The other thing we wanted to talk about in terms
Speaker 1: of your career highlights was the fact you've improved your
Speaker 1: year end ranking every year you've competed on tour. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's over about six or seven
Speaker 1: years now, which is pretty That's I would have thought
Speaker 1: that was relatively rare that there hasn't been. It's been
Speaker 1: trending the same way for so long, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to know, first of all, if you knew that, and
Speaker 1: second of all, what that kind of says about your progress,
Speaker 1: your consistency, all of those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Maybe at COVID there was a little drop, but obviously
Speaker 4: I was still a little bit higher than I was
Speaker 4: the year before. I have a rough idea, and yeah,
Speaker 4: do set some goals at the start of every year
Speaker 4: and assess at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I always try to improve.
Speaker 4: And like to be a little bit better than I
Speaker 4: was yesterday and if that ends up being a little
Speaker 4: bit better at the end of the year, fantastic. But
Speaker 4: I know that obviously that can't happen every single year,
Speaker 4: but yeah, push myself to try and yeah, keep climbing
Speaker 4: up the ranks.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, this has been fantastic, Tristan. We just now that
Speaker 1: you are about to head off in this I guess
Speaker 1: last last Slam coming up, and then the Asian segment
Speaker 1: we're getting towards the end of the season. What would
Speaker 1: a successful rest of twenty twenty six look like for you?
Speaker 3: Awesome? I want to finish the year strong.
Speaker 4: I've had a couple of big years and I found
Speaker 4: myself pretty towards the end played a lot of tournaments.
Speaker 4: So if I can be playing a lot of matches,
Speaker 4: stay healthy and get a few wins under the belt,
Speaker 4: that'd be great. And yeah, I want to finish strong
Speaker 4: and go into the ausy summer feeling really good.
Speaker 2: Nice And in the bigger picture, if we could grant
Speaker 2: you one dream in tennis.
Speaker 5: What would that be?
Speaker 3: Might be the win Wimbledon? Yeah, pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that's a dream for so many Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is it about Wimbledon specifically?
Speaker 4: I think just the prestige. I mean, I've always loved grass,
Speaker 4: I started on grass, and yeah, it'd be a pretty
Speaker 4: cool achievement. It'd be yeah, a close first and second
Speaker 4: between there and it's right and open. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: something just pulls me towards Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough too, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Well, we wish you all the best with that dream
Speaker 2: and yeah, and your goals for the rest of this
Speaker 2: year and especially over this coming few weeks in the US.
Speaker 5: So thanks for joining us today and good luck.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, appreciate it. Thanks Christin.
Speaker 2: Well, some great insights there from Tristan, and I guess
Speaker 2: that's what you would expect.
Speaker 5: Is one of the players that.
Speaker 2: Finished traditional school, and yeah, it has a really about
Speaker 2: balanced approach to life on tour.
Speaker 1: And I was really fascinated if to hear him discuss
Speaker 1: the slim margins the King on a couple of points
Speaker 1: here and there in a tiebreak. So it would be
Speaker 1: really interesting to see in this next swing in the
Speaker 1: US if he finds himself in a couple of those
Speaker 1: tight moments, you know, a tie break one here or there,
Speaker 1: can send him on a whole new trajectory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we hope that goes really well for him, and
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