Hitting With Jannik Sinner: My Unforgettable Tennis Experience

[Music] hey everyone I'm in Paris one week before the French Open starts and as you can probably see I didn't get a wink of sleep last night as yesterday I had the most surreal and incredible experience I think I've ever had on a tennis court and so in today's video I'm going to show you how this came about and I'm going to take you along with me let's go so I'm not kidding when I say this what you're about to witness me experience in this video video is definitely the most memorable experience that I've ever had on a tennis court and probably ever will so be sure to stay tuned till the end of the video as this one is a special one for me I was in Paris to test Head's new extreme rackets on the clay I'll be posting that review later on however I came a day early to visit the head team in their head house at a small tennis club in Paris it was a nice club no different to many others that you'll visit it had clay courts a couple with a bubble and a couple of touch tennis courts for the kids it was the Wednesday before the French Open which apparently every Wednesday the kids in Paris have a day off school so most of them from the tennis club go and play tennis head had arranged some really cool activities for the kids tennis theater were doing a show and teaching the kids some tricks I had to film a few as you can see as even I who's pretty skilled with a tennis racket and ball was amazed at what they were doing [Music] what made these moments even more surreal was on the court next door mansur barami was playing with some of the kids now if you don't know who mansur is he is one of the most incredibly talented tennis players that has ever lived and nowadays he plays exhibition matches all around the world normally you'll see him hitting tweeners and trick shots but as you can see here he was pretty static as he was saving his legs for some of the exhibition matches he had coming up as you can see see already the day was turning out to be really special but what happened next is why I didn't sleep for 2 days after head had planned for a special guest to join me and the kids doing a practice session on court the special guest was dressed in full ski gear so the Juniors had to ask questions to figure out who it was and yes you already know that it was world number number two Yanik sinner once he revealed his identity he hit some balls with the kids including the French under4 national champion I gave him my point of view camera while he hit with her and if you listen carefully at the end of this rally he gives some wise words we're playing with French champion [Music] [Music] all ooh in the net in the net it's the worst worst mistake after this our videographer AJ introduced Yanick to me and this is what he said this is Ashley by the way yes I I saw you on YouTube I guess yeah he's more famous than I am yeah I'm still not sleeping properly this has to be one of the biggest highlights of my YouTube Journey so far but what this means for you is that your comments in my videos may get seen by Yanick and other players so drop your comments of support for him in the comments section below and be sure to subscribe to the channel as if my videos are good enough for yanic they're good enough for you I asked Yanik a couple of questions so Yanik did you uh did you grow up playing a lot of these games um not as much as as other players used to play um I've always been a player who you know was practicing like like you know shots and all that stuff if I would watch back I would do much more of this because this helps you a lot you know with the touch with understanding of the position even on small Corners yeah um so looking back you know I would I would play much more this kind of stuff yeah that's for sure but you've developed fantastic touch do you think that's just come from playing lots of matches matches but you have to take the confidence from the practice sessions know because it's um there are there are a lot of players who who have good touch and um you have to be sure in yourself that you know that you can make it you know in the same sometimes you know it's it's other players they study you right so you have to you have to understand what kind of shots you can use you know you also have to get into into the other SM no it's it's a mind game so it's uh um but yeah I I feel like you know making a lot of volle is also practice sessions um missing balls you know trying to understand it's it's very important yeah amazing amazing and um final question if you had one piece of advice for some of these young Juniors today what would it be um enjoy first of all because um you have to love the sport you have to um you have to at some point you're going to have to choose when you're a little bit older they are very very young still and then then taking things serious but you know until a certain level you I would do still other sports You Know It uh it makes you grow in uh in the coordination um trying to understand if tennis is the right sport for you or not so you know there are many things together but you know it's it's it's all about smiling enjoying having great people around you which is the most important and um yeah that's it that's always what I've what yeah what actually I'm looking for and you can see that on the court you know just the way that you play the way that you're smiling the way that you interact with your team like it's it's a close Bond and that's important it's it's family you know we we go around all the time with the same people and if you don't if you don't feel free as as as a person also as a player it's it's it's never going to work out so um I've been very lucky to find the right people in the right times and so I'm very pleased with that and obviously there are a lot of improvements still to do but you know this is all part of the journey so I'm very happy amazing y thank you so much so much thank you so much I wish you all the best thank you thank you anyway if this wasn't enough I then got to hit some balls with him and I'm not going to lie I was pretty tight but even at this slow pace down the in the middle of the court I could feel the quality of his ball striking as it hit my strings to be honest I would have loved to feel what it would be like to hit against him hitting at full Pace but I was far too tight to ask him to do that as I know I'd be shanking balls into the crowd but even though we were just hitting up and down the middle of the court at a slow pace it was the most incredible feeling for the rest of the day I was in a days and will remember these moments for the rest of my life I've hit with a few Pros before but this was special yanic is my current favorite player to watch not just because of how he plays on the tennis court but his attitude off the court and the way that he works with his team he really is a truly great role model for junior players as you've probably seen from interviews on television and how he interacted with me when he first got introduced to me Yanick is one of the nicest Pros probably the nicest that I've ever met on my journey so far so humble so relaxed and chilled just a really nice guy no not scared what's even crazier is that the next day I got to hit with another player that's reached number two in the world so subscribe and stay tuned for my next video to see how it went thanks as always for watching I look forward to seeing you next time take care