Preferrred preparation contemplating, from split-step to hops and slides, good footwork is among the most vital components of the armoury of prime tennis gamers.
“I really like to bop and that’s my persona,” Robertson says. “If music is on within the fitness center or no matter throughout tennis, I all the time like to bop.”
Nevertheless, like Murray, Robertson is leaving ideas of Strictly Come Dancing to the previous world primary’s mom, Judy, and dedicating his life to hitting a tennis ball.
“I believe my first couple of lessons had been at Arbroath Tennis membership,” he remembers. “I’ve a brother and sister, I’m the youngest, and I simply received delivered to all their sports activities lessons.
“I really wasn’t sufficiently old for the tennis lessons, however I used to be simply introduced alongside and I simply began hitting off the tennis wall once I was actually little.”
Lastly allowed into class, as a result of he turned out to be “fairly good” regardless of nonetheless being “too younger”, he rapidly caught the tennis bug.
“And seeing Andy at that time was doing so effectively additionally, successful Wimbledon and stuff like that, I simply discovered it actually thrilling and have simply beloved it since then,” he says.
Robertson’s profile soared earlier this month when he reached the semi-finals of the US Open Juniors in New York.
He would lose in straight units to prime seed and overwhelmed finalist Nicolai Budkov Kjaer of Norway, however it sparked the inevitable comparisons with Murray, who had received the occasion 20 years earlier.
“Andy helps me,” he reveals. “We began our relationship from the grass season. He’s simply an incredible function mannequin for me and he has been an excellent assist to my sport.
“He was nonetheless taking part in at that time, so I used to be hitting with him and felt I might ask him questions and he would give his sincere recommendation, which was actually useful, and to listen to it from Andy Murray means lots.”
