Watch the Wallabies tackle Los Pumas at Allianz Stadium live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt’s quite fun tennis, but I don\u2019t think I’m up to the standard, maybe Wilson might be,\u201d Toole joked with reporters following the hit out.<\/p>\n
\u201c[De Minaur\u2019s serve is] pretty fast. I don’t think I got one back. Got close, but I’m glad I’m not out there against him on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played a little bit of tennis growing up, probably my main sport until I was about 14. I always love putting the racquet back in the hand and having a hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[Lleyton is] idol of mine and a lot of other young Australians, so you have to take the chance to be able to have a hit with him. Yeah, it’s quite special for both me and Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Minaur praised the Wallaby captain for his bold approach and mental resilience to go for the win in Townsville on Saturday, with Wilson taking a comparison on the mental toughness of playing professional tennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mental resilience that you have to have as a tennis player is pretty unbelievable,\u201d Wilson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he [De Minaur] always digs deep, just by himself and I don’t know anyone else around him, he’s pretty special. Watching wherever the ball was, he found a way to get it back and he definitely has that never-say-die attitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can take from it, probably our team, we’ve been behind it half-time a few games and we’ve found a way to get back into it and that’s just been trying to stack as many moments as we could. I’m sure that’s what they’ve got to do as a tennis player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not about trying to win the game in two sets down, it’s about winning the next game, the next point, the next set and then you can win the match from there and that’s pretty much sort of the same way we try and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson\u2019s decision making has been the talk of the town as the Wallabies get ready to face a resurgent Pumas in a Saturday sell-out in Sydney.<\/p>\n
However, Wilson was quick to brush off personal acclaim, singling out a strong support unit in the form of coaches and the Wallaby leadership group as a major factor in his growing confidence as captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is really cool to hear,\u201d Wilson says when asked about the reaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the support we’ve gotten this week has been pretty special. I think most Australians probably would have done the same thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that’s who we are as a people, we want to back ourselves. It’s probably no different to the way they fight back in the tennis world, [you\u2019re] trying to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery week you definitely grow in confidence in the role. I feel really comfortable because I’ve got such a good support network.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy more confidence. The more you do a role, the more confidence you get in it and it’s always nice when the team’s winning too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not very often you get to hit the court with a current top ten world tennis player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-132317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}