Jiri Lehecka warns Jannik Sinner.

The Words of Jiri Lehecka

Jiri Lehecka, Jannik Sinner’s next opponent in the Indian Wells quarterfinals, è one of the revelations of the BNP Paribas Open, having beaten such opponents as Andrey Rublev and Stefanos Tsitisipas. "With these playing conditions, I feel pretty good,” the Czech stressed at the press conference. “Last year I did not have the same feeling".

"This è one of the reasons I came here with Tomas (Berdych ed.) this year,” he added, “to get a little more help from his experience, to understand how he felt when he played here, and to listen to his useful advice to get me through some difficult situations on the court. It all works well: è it was a good decision and I feel that I have regained some kind of confidence here on this surface and I feel good".

The world number 32 told about his relationship with his coach Berdych, former world number 4: "Tomas, in many ways, è the same as when he was a player. He’ is very professional and very dedicated to success. Obviously he is doing everything he wanted his team to do when he was the player. So he knows what the player wants, what he feels, and he knows how to step in when he needs to help on certain aspects. And also off the field è very free, he doesn’t take things too seriously. He knows that the important moment è during the game on the field and not off the field".

"His advice was related to working more with the legs and in moving forward and backward during the exchanges. So we worked on that, and we talked about these things especially at the beginning of the week, at the beginning of the tournament, when we had some time to prepare. It was at that time that he è stepped in and told me what are the conditions here when it è dark, when it è night, when it ’s sunny. We are talking about the opponents and we have been working a lot in the last few days. Before these games we have been focusing and on feeling good on the field" Lehecka chipped in.