Samuel, from Winchester and who trains at Bath University, has won four trophies on the Challenger Tour since November, including back-to-back titles in Greece this month. <\/p>\n
He credits the run of good form with everything starting to align in terms of the work he has been putting in during training, and enjoying a period without injury. <\/p>\n
He missed most of the 2024 season after suffering bone bruising and it was not until midway through 2025 he felt healthy and recovered.<\/p>\n
“It’s been going well the last half a year – been winning quite a lot which is a nice feeling and I’m just trying to keep the momentum through each week, one match at a time, not too far ahead and focus the efforts on each week,” Samuel said.<\/p>\n
The next goal for Samuel is to reach the main draw of a Grand Slam – he played at Wimbledon in 2023 in the doubles, reaching the last 32, but has never appeared in a singles event.<\/p>\n
“That’s the next big goal for me,” Samuel said.<\/p>\n
“It’s insane that I’m even going to be able to say that I’m playing Grand Slams. You watch it as a kid on TV like, ‘one day maybe I can be there’, but you don’t actually believe it – but now actually doing it feels amazing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel, from Winchester and who trains at Bath University, has won four trophies on the Challenger Tour since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-548264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548264","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=548264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}