“We’ve been working on coming in for a while now,” he smiled in his chat with Martina Navratilova and Steve Weissman. “Surprisingly enough, I feel like I haven’t been coming in on grass as much as I have been on hard earlier in the year and the end of last year. I’m sure Brad will be pushing me to come in more in my next match!
“It’s funny where, after matches, we’ll pick out specific points and I’ll remember that I let that ball drop when I should have taken it out of the air,” he added later. “He’ll remember it more than I do; he’s pretty on top of it when it comes to missed opportunities, so we’ll definitely have a chat about that.”
Briefly the top-ranked American man following his cinch Championships victory, Paul is back to No. 2 behind childhood rival Taylor Fritz but has plenty of eyes on him given his pre-Wimbledon form and place in the draw, occupying the same quarter as defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.