00:00A warm welcome back to Miami you're a former champion here so it's an event
00:05that ticks the boxes really you've had success and you seem to like playing
00:08here so how does it feel to be back? Yeah you know I always enjoyed being in
00:13Miami off-site there's so much you know fun stuff to do and I'm enjoying the
00:18ocean and the beach as well so that's you know really important for me and on
00:23the court obviously every year the tournament looks a bit different so I'm
00:26trying to treat it as a different story. And you come off the back of a
00:31quarterfinal at Indian Wells so did you spend a couple of days there
00:35afterwards or did you come straight over and have you had a chance to practice
00:39much in Miami? No I came straight here and yeah it has been tricky with the
00:44practices because of the weather but we changed our schedule a little bit to
00:49manage that and yeah I got you know two practices for now which is which is
00:54great also not so many flexibility with the course because these are the
00:59busiest day of the tournament so yeah you know try to adjust to the conditions
01:05because that's the most important thing when you switch from you know different
01:09surfaces and everything and be ready for the first match. And in terms of the
01:14speed of the court it tends to be slightly quicker here doesn't it that to
01:17Indian Wells and have you found that here during practice or not so much as yet?
01:22Yeah I mean I felt great during practice but obviously it's usually you do like
01:29close patterns there so it's gonna also take some adjustment during matches I
01:34would say but the center court has been not available so also we're gonna see how
01:40the surface is gonna look on the center court. And you've mentioned the beach and
01:44what else do you like to do in Miami is there a particular restaurant you like to
01:48go back to a coffee place for example? Yeah there's one restaurant that I love and
01:56actually we have two birthday boys in our team my hitting partner and the coach so
02:01we're gonna celebrate that a little bit and you know it's easy to find good
02:05restaurants in Miami so I'm really enjoying that. And away from tennis as well
02:09you've been doing a reading challenge so can you tell us a little bit more about
02:14that and which books would you recommend at the moment that you've read? Well you're
02:18gonna see that on the reading challenge I'm not gonna spoil it for you but
02:22basically yeah the reading challenge is something that I also did in 2023 and
02:28it's been a success mostly because I feel like I engage people to read more and
02:33they actually gave me some you know great feedback about I don't know their
02:37kids starting to read or they like got back to the habit of doing it instead of
02:42doing some some stuff on social media or you know spending time in a different way so I'm
02:48really happy about that it also kind of inspired me to browse through you know
02:52different kind of books and look a little bit more for different kind of books and
02:57yeah I think you know during this reading challenge I'm gonna recommend like I don't
03:02know two three positions from last year that I loved and that's really you know stuck with me
03:07and then I'm gonna follow up with something that I read this year actually I
03:12already read like five books not every is suitable for the reading challenge and for
03:19sharing but I'm trying to pick a good one so they're also gonna interest the
03:24audience and they're actually gonna you know get into it and want after reading it
03:31maybe they will want to read some more so yeah it's a fun thing for me and I'm really
03:36happy that I have a platform where I can share that and and maybe yeah influence
03:41some kids that you know didn't have motivation to read or didn't feel like it
03:48can be fun that's really nice and does it help you as well mentally just switch
03:53off away from tennis oh yeah of course but you know I always loved reading so it's
03:57not anything new for me but yeah it's a way for me to spend my free time and it's
04:02relaxing it's I really like to get into the other world so yeah I love that and I
04:09I'm always gonna read you know
