Zitat des Tages von Denis Shapovalov:
I learned to absolutely love the feeling of winning a tough match on a tough point or figuring out how to come back when I was down and win ugly. Walking off the court with a W just made me so happy.
For me, it's more important to bring my level up and make sure that I can compete against guys in the top 100 and top 50 instead of maybe being 120 or 130 and not being able to compete with those guys.
Sascha is an unbelievable player; he's going to be a champion. Hopefully, I can get there one day. Hopefully, I can get to his level. I mean, he's still better than me. But I'll keep working hard, and hopefully we could start a little bit of a rivalry.
I live to be in these matches.
Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn't really drop from around 100-500. It's really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.
I kind of learned that it's never over until it's over in tennis.
I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.
Every week, it's always something memorable.
I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.
A lot of it's mental - a lot of the juniors, once you break them or change the momentum, they go away very quickly.
If I commit to pros, I really got to stick to it, and I think it was a good decision.
It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
I always dreamed of playing a night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's a dream come true for me.