Josh Eagle, the coach of Marinko Matosevic, tells the Age why the 27-year-old has become the highest ranked Australian at No. 49.

“This year he’s stopped being a clown and that’s the negative: he was always looking to make an excuse when the going got tough,” Eagle said. “But this year he’s handled that a lot better and had a good hard look at himself in the mirror. He was always very quick to blame other people in previous years and never take ownership of his own career.”