Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratilova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm Stan Barwinka. I'm Lainey Nguyen. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. The tennis podcast. The tennis podcast.

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph and brought to you in rather unique circumstances because I

Catherine Whitaker I'm in a commentary box in Toronto and I'm a company neither by David Law nor anyone for that matter. This is going to be a solo

Catherine Whitaker podcast. The good news is I will be bringing you audio from top level tennis players. You will have some sweet relief from the sound of my voice, but you will not for better or worse be hearing the sound of David Law's voice. He is on holiday. He's left me to it. He has left me alone with the podcast alone with you listeners. So I hope I do a decent job of keeping the podcast going in his absence. So what's been happening then? Well, I guess it's been a slightly unusual week, but with a very

familiar ending, no, that Drockovich is one amazing 30th Masters 1000 title. That's a record. It's a fourth Rogers Cup title. That is a record to those records. There's records everywhere you look for this man. He did it by beating Kane and she

Corey 6375 in the final. A very similar match actually to the one they played in the Miami final earlier this year here is what the champion, Drockovich, made of his week here in Toronto.

Well, it's the process like any other that has happened many times in my career where I would start a tournament still feeling a little bit uncomfortable on the court and finding my rhythm and then in the end of the tournament as a tournament goes on. I find that the proper comfort level with shots, with the way I feel, with mental attitude. And to two best performances have arrived in semi-finals and finals at the right moment for me.

Well, that's what the man himself thought as for me. Well, I think this wasn't Drockovich's best week by a long chore. What he's done by winning here is is prove what a mental fortress he is. That's a bit of a buzz word for me at the moment. But he really is because he was not playing his best tennis for most of this week.

The quarter finals against Thomas Burtick. How Burtick didn't win that first set. I don't know. He missed sitters on two of the set points. He hadn't that first set and served a double fault on a third in the semi finals against Game on Fees. Yes.

A rather one-sided scoreline 6362. But it wasn't as one-sided as that suggested. Monfice had countless chances to break the Drockovich's serving. He just didn't take them. It was like Burtick and Monfice were playing the reputation of Novat Drockovich rather than the opponent they had at the other side of the court who was not playing brilliant tennis.

There was a feeling for me that Drockovich was there for the beating this week. If only somebody could just believe and neither Burtick, Novat, and I suppose it was slightly lesser extent in his shakuri today. They didn't really, I don't feel believe, that they could beat the World No. 1.

I guess that's what being World No. 1 brings you. It's that locker remorer. It's stepping onto the court already a few games up in the mind of your opponent. That carries you through your less good days.

Drockovich deserves credit because he did play with incredible focus every time that he was down. He's been asked a lot in press this week about how on earth he has that focus.

How he doesn't suffer mental lapped is in the way that other players seem to. We've seen so much mental frailty from other players this week. He saw Stamford Rinker lose the first set yesterday to Kanishy Kuri having had four set points.

And then completely drop away in the second set. Six one he lost it. He was awful in that second set. And there's no other explanation other than a complete mental collapse after failing to take that first set.

Drockovich doesn't seem to have those. Sam Quarry matches at Wimbledon aside. He doesn't seem to have those. And it is incredible. And this is how he explained it.

I guess it's a combination of an experience playing so many times on the big stage and the big matches close message. And using that experience every time I get to face this particular pressure moments.

And even though it sounds like a cliche but really being in a moment trying to direct your attention only to what you can influence and you can influence only yourself and trying to execute the shots.

And what's coming next in the best possible way for yourself. So this is important. It's important to always stay committed and trust that you can play one ball more than your opponent.

So that's no that Drockovich. The champion in Toronto once again he'll now go to Rio. He's played himself into some form this week. I think had he gone to Rio playing the sort of tennis he was at the beginning of this week. He might struggle but it's been a very useful week.

I feel for no that Drockovich he's because he's going to go down there now in some kind of form. I still feel that he's beatable for somebody that believes and Andy Murray could be that person. But it's certainly going to be an interesting tournament.

I think in Rio as for Kane-ishy-kuri the man that he beat in the final he agrees that Drockovich was a slightly different player today in the final to the one that he had been throughout the week.

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