WATCH FOREHANDS

“When I in college, I was so successful with just, you know, finding a ton of forehands and bailing out with my backhand. And when I was on tour, the first thing that they kinda told me was like, alright, you need to be much more structured with your backhand side. Like, guys are just gonna pick you apart if you're if you're bailing out with your backhand. And so I really had to restructure my entire mind on how I was, you know, developing points and how I was playing tennis itself. And that was a really, really tough thing because I was like, man, I got out so easy in college with just hitting a huge forehand and guys not being able to catch up with it. So I think that was the physical side of things is just being able to understand like the actual like ins and outs of tennis, the intricacies.”

“When I first left college, I think it was more of like, oh, wow. This is awesome. Like, I'm getting to, you know, live out this dream that, you know, I never thought was possible. And so, you know, I think that only lasts lasts for so long. When I first turned pro, I went on this, like, twelve week losing streak. And so, you know, when you get hit with reality that hard, you're like, man, this is just this is terrible. And, you know, fortunately, I had my girlfriend was really great in that aspect is where she was constantly, like, telling me, like, no, like, you're too good to be back in college. Like, this is, this is what you wanted. This is, you won everything in school. Like, this is exactly what you wanted.”

“He told me that when you leave French you have to you have to go into an office and claim your prize money. And, you know, I'd been waiting for about a month for the prize money to come in because I was like checking every single day. I'm like, where is it out? How long does it take at majors? I've never been, you know, in the main draw of the French Open. How long does it take? Whatever. And after a month it hadn't come in yet and I I text Tommy. I'm like, dude, like, like why isn't prize money in? Like it's third round, like it's a big sum. Like, like I I I think, like, when's it gonna come in? He's like, oh dude, you didn't go to the office like in in Paris? And I was like no dude like I I didn't. He's like oh yeah you probably won't get your prize money.”

“Yeah, my freshman year so when I first got to school, they wanted to do it right away but I was like, No, guys. Like I'm not playing. Like you can't shave it yet. And so that entire semester in summer, I I didn't cut my hair. So I had a full mop going. I had like a a it was crazy. It was like a cotton ball, on top of my head. And so that I think it was right after US Open, the first time I played it, they I came home and the next day they shaved it. And it was, I mean, it was bald like just, ugh, it was so ugly too because I had like a tan line from my long hair. Oh. So I just had this white, white head. It was it was so embarrassing.”

“I remember actually when I was a kid watching this you probably you guys probably don't know him. His name is Billy Griffith. He went to Cal. And I just watched his forehand and I loved it. I thought it was like, so pleasing. And so I just started to copy it. And then the cobra just started to form out of that. And, you know, I kinda just yeah. Cobra. Just kinda ran with it. It's funny because Brad hates the cobra. If you if you talk about it with him, he hates the cobra and both Tommy and I have the cobra.”