Best preparation contemplating, from split-step to hops and slides, good footwork is among the most essential elements of the armoury of high tennis gamers.
“I really like to bop and that’s my persona,” Robertson says. “If music is on within the gymnasium or no matter throughout tennis, I at all times like to bop.”
Nonetheless, like Murray, Robertson is leaving ideas of Strictly Come Dancing to the previous world primary’s mom, Judy, and dedicating his life to hitting a tennis ball.
“I feel my first couple of courses have been at Arbroath Tennis membership,” he recollects. “I’ve a brother and sister, I’m the youngest, and I simply obtained dropped at all their sports activities courses.
“I really wasn’t sufficiently old for the tennis courses, however I used to be simply introduced alongside and I simply began hitting off the tennis wall after I was actually little.”
Lastly allowed into class, as a result of he turned out to be “fairly good” regardless of nonetheless being “too younger”, he shortly caught the tennis bug.
“And seeing Andy at that time was doing so effectively additionally, profitable Wimbledon and stuff like that, I simply discovered it actually thrilling and have simply cherished it since then,” he says.
Robertson’s profile soared earlier this month when he reached the semi-finals of the US Open Juniors in New York.
He would lose in straight units to high seed and crushed finalist Nicolai Budkov Kjaer of Norway, nevertheless it sparked the inevitable comparisons with Murray, who had received the occasion 20 years earlier.
“Andy helps me,” he reveals. “We began our relationship from the grass season. He’s simply an incredible position mannequin for me and he has been a terrific assist to my recreation.
“He was nonetheless enjoying at that time, so I used to be hitting with him and felt I may ask him questions and he would give his trustworthy recommendation, which was actually useful, and to listen to it from Andy Murray means quite a bit.”