Moller riding high on Davis Cup heroics

The 21-year-old passed the biggest moment in his career from a set down against Serbia’s Hamad Medjedovic to complete his nation’s first fightback from two rubbers down at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena.

On Wednesday, he again threw caution to the wind from a set down with plenty at stake to reach the final round of qualifying at Port d’Auteuil for the first time over Belgian Kimmer Coppejans 4-6 6-1 6-2.

Those in the loop on Moller’s ascent had likely noticed his penchant for running around a forehand to rip his flat, two-fisted backhand.

He wouldn’t go so far as calling it his greatest asset just yet even if it was instrumental to booking a showdown with Italian Matteo Gigante.

“I think maybe my focus is more on what I need to improve because I think there is so many things I'm still lacking, which I think also is maybe the most interesting part about tennis,” he said.

“I've done it for so many years and still feel like there's so much I can do so much better. It would be annoying if it felt like you were at some kind of final destination where you couldn't do much more than where you're at, but I still think there's so much I have to learn and improve, which makes me really motivated.

“I don't know if I think my backhand is like my biggest weapon. I don't know if I even hit more winners with it, I guess I do.”

Played before a few hundred fans on the bleachers of Court 12, the scattering of Danish fans was a far cry from the masses whose hopes he carried three months ago.

Success had followed his Davis Cup heroics with his biggest Challenger title, a 125k event in Oerias, Portugal last month on clay, which lifted him to the brink of a top-100 breakthrough.

Moller never envisioned he would go on to take the sport seriously as a career.

It was more a case of having stumbled into something he never even considered himself that good at in the early days.

“I mean nobody in my family played tennis. I think it was just I played for fun with my dad. We used to play in parking lots and stuff like that,” he said. “I was really s**t actually for a long time. I don't know why I kept going. Honestly, I don't know. I think I just liked doing sport and then I just found tennis to be the most interesting one.” 

Now the No.2 Dane behind the highly credentialed world No.10, Holger Rune, a player whom he grew up playing alongside, that Davis Cup Qualifying tie was a full-circle moment for the pair, having also represented Denmark in the junior team competition.

Moller though was determined to forge his own path.

“We won Europeans together when we were 12. We've grown up for many years (together) so it's not like I'm meeting him for the first time,” he said.

“Overall I just try and focus to be honest on myself … I just appreciate it and think it's crazy we have a Danish player doing that well and he's only 22. He's done things people dream about doing their whole career.

“I think obviously playing for Denmark is always the biggest privilege for me. It's just such a special feeling. I got to play at home in front of like 10,000 people, which is a lot.

“I think nothing can really top that experience, especially when it's a sport that's so individual and you don't get that many team experiences so that was crazy for me and the whole team … The guys on the bench I remember were firing me up and just watching Danes come out to watch me play was insane.”

There’ll be plenty more Danes in the stands should he go on to join Rune in the main draw.

No arena seems too big for this battle-hardened contender now.

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