My name is Gregor Dimitra, and you're listening to Tennis Podcasts.

Obviously so many people of your career have compared you to Roger Federer.

You made the point well hold on. I haven't reached the second week of a slam yet.

I haven't won an A to B title yet. There may be some similarities and it's a compliment,

but it's not right to compare in that way just yet.

But I just wonder, is he somebody you watched when you were growing up in any way modelled your

strokes on at all? No, no, definitely not. I mean I was watching

us a lot of beat cymbals and ragas and all these guys.

I mean my dad was my coach ever since I remember myself, so I think everything

was put up all together. You know you cannot name one thing that I was trying to copy.

Of course you can see I think from many players you can see small things and try to

to make them in this way or serve or beg him for it. Whatever it is doesn't matter what shot it is,

but I was never like sitting in front of a TV in particular so okay today I gotta do exactly

like him and stuff. I think I think it's impossible. I think every player has his own style of course,

and I think everyone wants to kind of build up his own personality, his own, his own, you know him.

So I think it's just comparisons like that of course, you know it's nice to hear or know that,

but you know that's not my point. And as you said what I said at the press conference and I'm

sticking to it. I just want to, I mean the transition that a player makes from the junior to

the senior game is historically one of the most challenging things. Really you can win matches,

you can win tournaments on the juniors, trying to then transfer that to the senior game.

Where do you feel you are now? How far along that road do you feel you are?

Oh I cannot tell like exactly where I'm right now because you know I've played already a couple

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