Hi, I'm Janko Tipisaravich and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Okay Janko, thank you very much for joining us on the tennis podcast. Welcome.

I want to start off by asking you a bit about

Davis Cup 2010, obviously an extremely significant moment in your career, extremely special

more than just a title. I wonder if that year did you know back in the rest of the team?

Did you have a feeling perhaps when you were making that bet to shave your head?

Did you have a feeling that it was going to be a special year that you might just do it?

To be honest with you, it would be like a fairy tale thing that I tell you that we did expect it,

but we obviously didn't. We honestly didn't, sorry. The point was that we knew that we had the

quality. No, it was obviously, I think word number two at that point and was playing amazing,

but you know winning Davis Cup is just a lot of matches. You need to be consistent, you need to

win the singles and the doubles against huge nations at that point. When we made the bet,

we didn't even know will we play at home, will we play away and it's obviously a big deal when

you when you play Davis Cup because the host can choose the surface, but you know once we started

winning after the first two rounds, we thought because we knew that the same eyes against

Czech and against France, we would play at home. We were thinking that it could be a realistic

possibility that we all shave our heads at the end of the year. It was the most emotional moment of

my professional career and my biggest success and I'm really happy that you know at least for one

time in my career I managed to win Davis Cup with my teammates. And it's propelled both you and

Novak to the heights of your career so far. Are you able to explain just why it's had such a

profound effect on your singles career? I don't think that the Davis Cup like it obviously helped

me to prepare better for the next season because I can just imagine losing the decisive match,

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