Dev Javia after his win in the quarterfinals at M15 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Interviewer: Hi Dev, congrats on the great win today, you’re into the semifinals. What are your reflections of the match?

Dev: Um, I think it was a solid match. My opponent was very consistent. So, I had to make sure, I was I was keeping my level consistent at all times. Like, started bad, I played a bad first game, got broken. And then I I settled into the match very nicely, I started building up my rhythm pretty nicely. And then it was all fine. Uh, got an important break in the second set of three all and then, uh, again, I lost some focus. Play two bad games, went down to five four, but I’m very happy that uh, I could focus again in the important moments and come up on top.

Interviewer: Dev, I noticed your drop shots were very effective today, very, very effective. Is that something you’ve been working on, that part of the game?

Dev: No, I mean, not not really, but, um, again, it’s uh, super comfortable. the conditions here it’s almost impossible to hit winners. Oh the court and especially him is super quick on the court. He’s also playing a lot further back from the baseline. So I think it was a it was working very well today with the forehand me playing very heavy onto his backhand, pushing him back and then when I am inside the board, when I have chance to mix it up a little bit with the drop shots, so always keeping on the toll, I think it worked very well.

Interviewer: What’s your plan for the off season? Are you taking an off season or what’s your plan?

Dev: Yeah, of course, I mean, uh I was I was injured a lot so I just started playing again full time. So I mean I would try to play a few more weeks this year until December and then uh we’ll see. I mean, I still have to sit, I still have a few tournaments planned before I take the off season and then we’ll see. But definitely I’ll have an off season.

Interviewer: How is your training and who do you train with and how’s your training now?

Dev: Right now I’m in uh Bangalore, at Rohan Bopanna, RBTA, Tennis Academy is again a lot of. lot of thanks to Rohan, Balu sir, my my physio. Bopanna was there, they have been a great help for me. for me to be feeling healthy and fit to be competing multiple weeks in a row.

Interviewer: What’s next for you after KL?

Dev: I’m going next week, I’m playing a 25k in Bhubaneswar, India.

Interviewer: Okay.

Dev: I’m playing this one and then, yeah, I’m playing Bhubaneswar and Bhopal.

Interviewer: All the best and have a great tournament.

Dev: Thank you.