TAYLOR FRITZ

When I travel I have a full-time physio that I pay for myself. He also handles strength and conditioning.

It's important to work the core in all planes of movement, as we move in all three planes in tennis, especially into rotation and anti-rotation movements.

My strokes come from a lot of different people. I personally take credit for my forehand. My uncle helped me a lot with my backhand.

There are so many people supporting me and so many good people on my side.

I feel like I always win at least a round or two at every tournament. I don't go out in the first round too often.

If I'm winning a lot and going deep in a tournament, I don't do a lot of heavy workouts. I'll instead do a lot of short sessions where we focus on functional exercises, with the matches obviously being the major workout for each day.

My parents got me into tennis, and it's why I do what I do, and probably why I do it as well as I do it, because I've always had their guidance and their experience and their help throughout my whole life.

It's tough when you struggle physically to meet your own expectations.

Because when you're 10, 11, 12, 13, you see all these strokes and you want to copy them. And it's not easy to keep what you started with, if that makes sense.

When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.

I played three years as a junior.

It's a really good feeling in moving up the rankings so quickly because it's so reassuring that I made the right decision in turning pro.

Anything that would help me get my ranking up and get me seeded at tournaments will make my draws a lot easier and give me a much better opportunity to go deep in these tournaments.

It's always fun to play as part of a team and any other events that have that team aspect to it I always really enjoy.

I just want to be the best that I can be, and I'm focusing on my own career.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

I love doing core workouts. The core is so important in tennis.

I've said it lots of times before, I play for myself, so I'm not worried about other people's expectations.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.

A lot of what I enjoy about tennis is the cheering crowd.

I have someone who invests my money in a safe way so it continues to grow.

I think it's awesome that we're 50 years into the US Open being the US Open. It hasn't always been here. It's growing every year. Getting better every single year I come here.

The first practice is two-and-a-half, three hours, and it's really physical. The second practice starts after lunch at 1 p.m. We work on specific stuff, like coming to the net. After that, I play sets. Then I'm in the gym for an hour-and-a-half doing legs, upper body, and cardio.