We went up to one of the top floors and when the elevator door opened, the floor had escorts and the room doors had pros’ names in them such as, “Sharapova Suite”. As we were walking towards the very end of the corridor, I saw the name “Djokovic Suite” on the door. We entered. As soon as I entered the door, I was shocked! There were no beds. Some furniture had been removed to make room for all the Adidas gear prepared for Novak Djokovic and other famous Adidas endorsers at that time such as Fernando Gonzalez and the likes. There were more than 100 pairs of shoes in and enormous amounts of apparel – too much for me to process. The Adidas representative first got two Adidas traveling bags (the ones with wheels) and placed an Adidas tennis bag in one of them. He proceeded to ask me what my shoe size was and I said 10.5. I can still remember his response to me, “Oh perfect! You have the same size as Novak!” He gave me 6 pairs. He then asked my shirt size, I said I was a large. He asked me if I prefer Djokovic outfit (yellow and black shirt with black shorts) or the Gonzalez outfit (white and blue shirt with grey and white shorts). I answered back with a questions asking if I could have both? But since I wasn’t (and till this day, still not) a fan of Djokovic, and was a great fan of the Gonzalez forehand, I asked if I could have more of Gonzalez’s outfit. He gave me about 10 Djokovic outfits and gave me about 15 of Gonzalez outfits. If I remember correctly, he gave me about 15 pair of wrist bands as well. He also asked if I wore a hat when I play. I said yes, so he gave me 10 caps. Socks – he gave me about 15 pairs as well. It was a surreal moment! On the way out, I saw Adidas watches on one of the coffee tables so I thought I was gonna get those too—I apparently not! Haha. So at the end of the day I had two traveling bags full of Adidas clothes, escorted by the security on the way out, then rode one of Adidas’ shuttle cars to my hotel. It was definitely one of my greatest experiences as a junior. #DreamBig

Kyle