Stan Wawrinka may appear tantalizingly fit on the glossy pages of ESPN’s Body Issue, but looks aren’t everything for the 30-year-old Swedish tennis champ.
Here are some highlights from the upcoming interview:
On achieving that body:
My body is for my tennis, it’s for my sport. I’m not a model at all. I don’t work out to go to the beach, I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
How he trains for play:
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I can keep my fitness and strength at a high level for hours and hours and hours. I can play really powerful from the baseline and I can keep my level up — that’s why I’m playing well in five-set matches. I’ve done it many times, in many long matches, many times longer than four or five hours and it wasn’t a big problem for me. It’s not a strategy to make matches longer, but I know that I can keep up. That is always good for my confidence.
But what’s your tat say?
I have a Samuel Beckett quote tattooed on my arm. I got it a few years ago now: “Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.” That’s a little bit how I see life in general, but especially in tennis, because even if you play well, even if you’re top-10, you still lose matches. So you need to accept that and take the positives from that.
via ESPN
Ronald Wei
It should be called the Sports Illustrated Body Issues.
Danny Ray
Wow! Stan Wawrinka is a hot and sexy guy! I wish him all the best!!!
Tony Lawrence
Nope….still nothing to beat My Gronky…rob gronkowski=NE Patriots….2012 ESPN body issue…..yeeeooowwwww!!!! 😀 <3
planetfranck
At the risk of sounding pedantic (already too late, I guess): he is Swiss, not Swedish
Glücklich
@planetfranck:
All those white folks look alike. Sweden, Switzerland, Swaziland…same thing.
Curty
Gluckilch you’re ignorance is showing. And that is incorrect. What if someone said that about blacks? Since that is a common stereotype. Anyway he has a nice butt, is he gay?
Glücklich
@Curty:
I’m white. Swaziland is in Africa. That *whoosh* sound? It’s the joke flying over your head.
Andrew Nestler
Why did you say he is Swedish?
Xzamilio
@Curty: Get out of your feelings, little boy.
SportGuy
@Tony Lawrence: Agreed! Gronkowski was hot in that issue! Their are much better than this guy in the 2015 issue though.
Tony Lee Churchill
0.o HELLo !! 😉
billywonka
If my tennis coach looked like this, I’d still be playing….
Ben Schroth
Why didn’t Nadal?
Billy Budd
Fabulous ass, but regular face.
bberkeley
Don’t think so… He is married and has a child, but he and Novak Djokovic have been photographed in an intimate embrace on the tennis court many times, with Djokovic holding Wawrinka’s head in his cupped hand. They are very tender pictures. If only all straight men could be that open…
jason smeds
He has such a cute bubble butt. Marry me, Stanley.
Sweetie Pie
Nice ass, nice legs…average face… I´d rather see Andre Agassi doing the photo session…
Glücklich
@Sweetie Pie:
I concur.
@jason smeds:
Are you joining the land of the living? Congratulations on your most succinct, coherent comment yet.
jar
@bberkeley: He’s actually in the process of divorcing his wife.
avesraggiana
@Curty: So is yours, as far as the use of “you’re” and “your” is concerned. Or maybe it was just an autocorrect-typo.
avesraggiana
@bberkeley: Speaking very generally, men in other parts of the world such as Europe and Australasia have an easier time with open displays of affection between each other, than men in the USA. Men in other parts of the world also have NO PROBLEM AT ALL wearing Speedos, or anything that is more revealing of their body. American men conform to a prudish. puritanical double-standard in demonstrations of affection and dress that I have always found odd.
avesraggiana
@jar: That’s a shame.
jason smeds
avesraggiana,
I think you are probably judging American men through the metrosexual lens of Hollywood which is dominated by nerdy geek types.
avesraggiana
@jason smeds: No, I’m judging by the behaviour of straight, grown-up, American men, coast-to-coast who insist on dressing like eight-year-olds (T-shirts, baggy shorts and baseball caps), and who remain deathly afraid of being perceived as gay.