Denis Shapovalov praises Felix Auger-Aliassime as the biggest hard-worker
"Yeah, there is a lot of young talent coming in. You know, it's just that point in the ATP when you still have kind of the legends, Roger and Rafa still there on top, but you also have a lot of newcomers with talent kind of gunning for them. Every week it feels like someone new is making a breakthrough and playing well. I think it's healthy for the sport to see a couple of new stars in the game and for the fans to kind of watch something new other than the top-4. Yeah, it's kind of crazy to share this success with Felix. I was thinking in the locker room how far back we go, and from the national groupings when we were eight and nine years old, so it's so crazy to see how far we have come.
And at such a young age, I feel like both of us have such of bright future ahead of us. It's great to see him doing well. Honestly, it's not a shocker for me that he's gone this far, that he's doing so well. Like I have been saying for a couple of years now, it was just a matter of time with Felix being healthy and just playing well at the right time. I see, first of all, how talented he is and how talented he was from a young age. But it's not only that. He could be so talented, but I have never seen someone work as hard as him.
He's so professional about how he goes about his things, from the morning to when he sleeps at night. He's always thinking like a pro athlete. I kind of look up to him in that sense, feeling like he's always on top of those things. It's just great to see."
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