This is one of twelve excerpts from an exclusive interview with Nick Chappell at the 2022 Columbus Fall Challenger.
They will be posted over time in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Tennis Acumen: Do you have any particular friends on tour, guys that you play doubles with or travel with?
Nick Chappell: I was just hanging out with one of the other TCU guys, Reese Stalder. A doubles guy. I'm very good friends with him. We actually weren't on the team together. Alex Rybakov is another former TCU guy. They actually came the year I graduated. But now since we've all been on tour for a couple of years, we've all become pretty good friends.
Tennis Acumen: What's it like playing against a friend? Does that make a difference to you?
Nick Chappell: We're all used to it at this point. So, I don't think it really affects anyone. Things are a little less chippy when you do play friends. Sometimes, when you when you play somebody you don't know, someone you're not friends with, things get a little more heated. When friends play against each other, it's a little more civil. I don't think anybody really wants to get into it with somebody who they're really good friends with. I can't say the same about somebody I don't know that well.
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