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Nick Kyrgios' physical trainer Ashcon Rezazadeh plans on promoting mental health and well being through fitness 

“Ash has made me enjoy going to the gym. That’s a bit of a miracle. I’m usually pretty hopeless with the gym, especially when I’m on my own.”

 


Those were Nick Kyrgios’ words in a piece he wrote for PlayersVoice when describing the impact his strength and conditioning coach Ashcon Rezazadeh has had on him this season.


Mostly coachless for the past three and a half years, Kyrgios was initially reluctant to add a new member to his small team. But with some pressure from his mother Norlaila and his agent John Morris, the talented Aussie hired Rezazadeh after Miami last April, to help him with his physical training and rehab.


The pair struck up a bond over the past few months and are currently in Canberra getting Kyrgios ready for 2019.
“He’s only a couple of years older than me but he’s really mature. I said to mum, ‘Why am I not like that?’” Kyrgios recalls in his PlayersVoice piece.

“‘People mature at different rates,’ she said. ‘You’ll get there!’”
Rezazadeh is only 24, but is already an established name in the strength and conditioning world. He ventured into tennis in 2015, working with Great Britain’s Dan Evans, and later with two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka, among others. He also worked with boxing world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
Born in Birmingham, UK, to Iranian parents, Rezazadeh has an infectious energy that is noticeable the second you start talking to him. You quickly understand why he was able to get Kyrgios to enjoy going to the gym and how he finds pleasure in motivating people to set goals and figure 

 

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