"He is one of most strong-willed people I’ve ever met" - Annacone on Fritz

Former doubles world number 3 and coach of Taylor Fritz, Paul Annacone spoke about training the young American.

Fritz's journey up the ATP Ranking is one of the longer ones. The young American enjoyed some attention already earlier in his career thanks to big potential. Last year, Fritz has won his first ATP title and now he sits on the 24th place in the ATP Ranking what is his career-high at the moment. Paul Annacone, his coach and former world number 12 spoke to ATPTour.com about training Taylor as well as how they handle the current situation.

"Taylor is 22 years of age, he has a lot of energy. He realises this is an incredibly serious moment in history, not just tennis, and he needs to get something positive out of it. When it gets safer to get back on the court as a team, we’ll do that and we’ll rebuild. He is working hard. I just worry he’ll become so good at all of his e-gaming that he’ll become a professional e-gamer and his tennis will go out of the window," said Annacone.

"Taylor is one of the most strong-willed people I’ve ever met. That can be good and bad. That can be challenging when I’m trying to convince him of something that he doesn’t believe in. That’s a challenge for me. But when it’s good is in [facing] adversity, when he is on court and things don’t look great and he isn’t winning, or he is a little injured. He is one of the best unconditional competitors out there. He can wear his emotions on his sleeve, but I don’t mind that, because he doesn’t ever stop. I’ve seen him win matches when he is sick, when he is hurt, when he is not playing well and those are the ingredients that he is going to [need to] reach his potential. Whatever your potential is," Annacone said.

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