Joe

He has just started a new podcast called Off Court with Greg.

talking all things tennis and one of his co-hosts small world that this is is kevin palmer who writes for tennis 365 but kevin also works for the sunday world sunday world part of media as is the irish independent and kevin reached out and said you know what we're getting our podcast started you want to have a chat with greg rosetzky and we said absolutely we do so um yeah that's how we came to speak to greg rosetzky as the australian open cranked into gear here he is without further ado

Greg Grzeski, you're very welcome.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Can I jump in at something really interesting, which is how elite tennis players come to be?

Your father, Tom, was bizarrely ahead of the curve in some respects.

So in Montreal, Quebec in the 1980s, he sees, or I think a coach in a park sees you've an aptitude for the game and he decides, well, let's do this.

He doesn't go the Earl Woods or the Emmanuel Agassi way.

So as I understand it, by 11 years old,

You have a sports psychologist.

By 13, you have a physical trainer.

There is a cottage industry around you and Greg Rosetzky.

I don't know if it's made its way over to... Well, I guess you're still living in the UK, as I understand.

Okay.

Well, then maybe it has made its way to London, but Conor Nyland, Irish tennis player, has written a fantastic book in the last year.

Yeah, yeah.

The Racket, yeah.

You know, he's fairly solidly of the opinion because he beat a young Roger Federer that he missed out on his window to be a top 50 male tennis player.

Not when he was 16 or 17 or 18, but somewhere kind of from 9 or 10 and 13 or 14.

You know, they had a court in Backgarden and that got him going to a certain level.