Andrey Rublev reflects on emotional 2024 season, admits to occasional child-like behavior

Following a rather disappointing 2024 season, tennis star Andrey Rublev has opened up on some of the regrettable behavior that plagued the Russian this year.

Rublev displayed some concerning behavior at various points during the 2024 season, with emphasis on his notorious meltdowns on court. Despite his poor on-court attitude, the former World No.5 did win two ATP titles and finished the year ranked at World No.8.

Ahead of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown Grand Final in London this weekend, Rublev opened up on what he learned from his behavior this season.

"If we talk outside the court, the tennis this season, gave me a lot of lessons that I learned and that made me grow up, to be more mature and to see the things from a different angle that I never saw before,” said Rublev in an interview with Tennis Majors. “So I’m looking (ahead) very excited how it will affect my tennis next season.
"Everything is related. The way I was behaving on court, it was the things that I was behaving outside the court. Learning, it means that I start behave less like a kid, so now I behave a bit more like a mature, grown man, let’s put it this way.
"Still, there is many parts I’m still be having like a kid, but less, after all the years that I have, after this year, those situations make me stop to act like a kid, like I was doing always before.”

Additionally, Rublev revealed he has been seeing psychologists to help him with his mental health.

"I’m using psychologists, everything that is possible,” he added. “Different things, besides psychologists, myself, trying to learn a lot of things, trying to study those things, why and how the life works in general, and because I was kind of learning those things, and then many things I start to understand.”