when I was twenty I think I could have reached the second league (serie B it was called back then) level, which is not enough to try ATP qualifications, but is pretty high level as there
were just a few on that level in the whole country. At that point, tennis becomes a profession and you have to dedicate your whole day to it, which thing I never did. Last Saturday
afternoon I played vs a guy that at the end of the match told me ''you play like a tennis master.......how many lessons did you take to reach such level ? ''. Always the same story,
they can't believe I never took a single lesson. Even a real tennis master whose best ranking was in the first 20 national players, couldn't believe I never took a lesson. He told me
I was phenomenal if it was true that I never had had lessons. The truth is that when I was fourteen, in Summer I used to play two hours per day, seven days a week. And I did all the
experiments that it was needed to improve under any technical aspect. Obviously I was naturally gifted, but the main thing I put in, was reasonment, because technique is based on that.
That is where I was always very strong, on reasoning.
Probably it's due to my father's family. A cousin of mine played in the national soccer B league
Edited by andr99, 27 September 2023 - 10:01 AM.