I really enjoy watching Roger Federer, says popular WTA player
In an interview to Metro revealed who were her childhood idols. Kontaveit, who will try to go far in the upcoming Australian Open where she defeated Sara Sorribes Tormo in a straight-set first round, said: I watched [Maria] Sharapova and Azarenka I remember quite a bit.
Also, I think thats for everyone, but I really enjoy watching [Roger] . Obviously. I played Azarenka when I was 14 or 15 for the first time in Fed Cup. I obviously lost. But it sort of gave me some motivation.
Obviously I got beaten easily, something like one and two, I cant remember. It wasnt close at all. But I remember that I did feel like it wasnt like something crazy, you know, I didnt feel it was too far away or impossible.
I still had a lot to learn and I had to get better at a lot of things but I felt like it was realistic. Kontaveit is satisfied with the progresses made so far and she heads into Melbourne being confident: Its been really well.
It took a couple of months to get to know each other a bit better, to get used to the way he was coaching, you know, everybody coaches a little bit different so it took a few months to get used to that but I think its been going really well and were getting on well.
My off-season actually went really well. I was in Thailand. It was the first time doing it with Nigel, we worked on a lot of different things. ALSO READ: Rafael Nadal: Worse players than David Ferrer won a Grand Slam title
