Congrats on your Gold in the recent European Youth top 10 event in Tours, France, which parts of your game pleased you the most?

Thank you very much! I feel like my serve receive game was good throughout the tournament which got me good opportunity to dominate the game, especially with my forehand. My physical form was good so I could be in good shape in all the matches and hold a good level of concentration, which I think is especially important in a tournament like this where you have to play nine long matches no matter if you lose or win.

How do you ensure you get the best out of a training session, and how many hours do you train in a normal week?

It’s very important for me to get the most out of the hours I train. So I try to always prepare for the practise and always remind myself of how important each practise is even though it’s just a few hours, when it adds up it’s a huge amount of time. After practise I try to reflect on the practise to see if I could have done anything differently or something that was really good.In a normal week I practise around 22 hours.

Can you give us some insight to what it’s like competing with such a great crop of young players like Truls, Stumper, Movileanu, the Le Bruns etc?

This generation is very tough and has a lot good players. For me I think it creates a good environment where it’s big competition and personally it’s very motivating.

What are your favourite 2 drills?

My two favourite drills would be free against backhand and service free.