Greg Rusedski

His hero is Andre Agassi.

And I think he's got lots of interesting takes on the game.

And he reads it very, very well.

He's a guy...

who maximized everything in his career and I think he's very very insightful but you know as he says himself my backhand just wasn't good enough for this generation and him and Federer had a laugh about that as well saying there's no weaknesses in these guys these days and for Ruddock the key was do I make every single return or do I play a service game where I'm going to take a risk and just let it count up to the tiebreakers and that's the balancing act you've always had to do against Andy.

Yeah, well, there's a wonderful book for anybody who's listening called The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Galloway.

And it's all about feeling through the subconscious and how you train as well.

So if you train in the right manner, you have fractions of seconds to deal with it so you know exactly what you need to do out there because you can't rationally think.

You have the game plan, you know what you need to do, and then sometimes the subconscious mind has to take over.

And the keys between those guys from 15, 10, 5, and 1 is how they play the big points.

And do they go for it under pressure?

So one of the things that Agassi quoted, if I got it wrong, I do apologize to Andre, but I think he said, to be top 10, you either got to be really stupid or really smart.

You can't be in between.

And what happens at the big moments, you're not thinking about it, you're just doing it.

And then the ones that are really smart, Andre said, to be number one, you have to be really smart.

Because at the end of the day, you have to figure out the solution, know why, and get to that sort of level out there.

And I would say the ones who start getting scar tissue or start losing and start overthinking, you fall backwards very, very quickly.

So I think that's the difference is you look at Sinner and Alcaraz, who are this new generation of the Federer, Djokovic, and Adele with Novak still competing.

Big points come, they go bigger.

They get more aggressive.