Nitto ATP Finals
Olympic medalist Igarashi liked Nitto ATP Finals: ‘I went dwelling daily taking notes’
Igarashi served as ATP content material creator in Turin
November 12, 2025
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Browsing star Kanoa Igarashi attended the Nitto ATP Finals for the primary time.
By Andrew Eichenholz
Kanoa Igarashi is aware of what it takes to compete on the highest degree of sport, successful a silver medal in browsing on the Tokyo Olympics. However that has not stopped the 28-year-old from being impressed by what he noticed on the Nitto ATP Finals.
“Tennis has at all times been that sport the place it is essentially the most bodily and mentally essentially the most tough sport on the planet,” Igarashi informed ATPTour.com. “As a sportsperson, I take a look at quite a lot of tennis gamers as inspiration, and I draw quite a lot of concepts from them. But it surely was my first expertise coming right into a event final week in Paris, after which hastily, I am right here in Turin, so it was a loopy few weeks within the little tennis a part of my mind.”
Based mostly in Lisbon, Igarashi has shortly turn out to be a giant fan of tennis. After attending the Rolex Paris Masters and the Nitto ATP Finals as a content material creator for the ATP, the Japanese star has gotten to know a few of the sport’s finest gamers.
“It’s loopy. Simply constructing a relationship with a few of these guys and having a superb dialog with a few of these athletes, it is actually made me realise that it is loopy the similarities between sports activities,” Igarashi stated., “On the finish of the day, we’re attempting to turn out to be the very best it doesn’t matter what you are enjoying: soccer, basketball, tennis, or my sport, browsing. There’s so many various methods to do your sport, however the aim is similar.”
Igarashi has loved exchanging concepts about preparation for competitors in addition to coaching, each on and off the sphere of play.
“I went dwelling daily, taking notes off of a few of the guys. [They] informed me and stated, ‘Hey, have you ever ever skilled like this or have you ever ever completed this type of respiration workout routines? Have you ever ever checked out your sport on this means?’” Igarashi stated. “[There are] totally different perspective, totally different angles, and I felt like I grew so much as an athlete and in my very own sport. So to say, a few of these previous few weeks, issues that I will take with me for my upcoming season.”
One of many conversations that stood out was with Felix Auger-Aliassime, who certified for Turin over the past week of the season. They spoke about respiration and coping with strain.
“Tennis is about resetting after every level, whether or not you win or lose, and being contemporary for the subsequent level. Identical with browsing. We catch waves, and also you’re speculated to reset after every wave and just be sure you’re bodily and mentally reset going into the subsequent trip,” Igarashi stated. “We had been speaking about some respiration stuff and had been sharing methods and the methods we handled in our personal means.
“We picked one another’s brains a bit of bit, and it was a superb dialog. He is very philosophical. I’m too. Particularly with the game that I am in, you actually need to be. So it was cool.”
The ATP and TikTok have formally launched the Tennis Creator Community, a world creator initiative that debuted this week on the Nitto ATP Finals. Igarashi is a member of the Tennis Creator Community, who was representing Indian Wells in Turin. Be taught extra in regards to the pioneering initiative right here.
