Joe

You had Pete Sampras with his 14 Grand Slams and...

Agassi with his eight, the likes of Leighton Hewitt and Ivo Nisovic, Tim Henman, Bars Becker, the tail end of Jimmy Connors.

At his peak, Brzezinski got up to number four in the world, was very close to making world number one, number four in the world, never managed to win a Grand Slam.

The closest he came was in 97.

He was 24 years of age and he reached the US Open final.

He was beaten 3-1 by Pat Rafter.

Both of them real serve and volley types doing their thing on the hard courts at Flushing Meadows.

Canadian born.

Rosetzky famously represented Great Britain, where he lives to this day.

And yeah, with tennis season starting up, he seemed like a good time to talk to a tennis guest.

I appreciate Craig Rosetzky might seem a touch random, by the way.

It's funny how these things come about.

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.