Young Portuguese aged 27 works as a full time physiotherapist for Tommy Haas. He also works as physiotherapist for the national team at Davis Cup and Fed Cup. This name, Carlos Costa, may not mean anything for most people but in the tennis world, this physiotherapist who is only 27 years old, is one of the most coveted professionals, who has embraced his career almost by chance. “I have been connected to sport since a very early stage as sport is an area that always been part of my life and has always fascinated me. I started my sports life swimming and entered lots of competitions until I reached the competition at high level. Besides swimming I also played soccer, did mountain bike and, later, taking ‘Pistol Pete [Sampras]’ and Agassi models and encouraged by my father and by my godfather I decided to learn how to play tennis.”, he started to remind by an email from Miami, where he is with the German Tommy Haas, working permanently. Because of his passion for sport, Carlos Costa discovered in physiotherapy the way to work with different athletes from “hockey, basketball, soccer, swimming, windsurf”. Tennis appeared unexpectedly when he was invited by an ATP ex-physiotherapist to work with him. “Due to my god professional performance the first opportunities to work with tennis players on the Tour appeared. This way I became more involved in tennis”, he remembered. At the age of 27 this Portuguese physiotherapist that also works for the nationals team at Davis Cup and Fed Cup has an enviable curriculum which includes the former number one, Ana Ivanovic, and more recently Haas, for the third consecutive year. “Simultaneously I’ve also worked as a physiotherapist for MercedezCup at Stuttgart and did rehabilitation to other players like Toma Berdych, Frantisek Cermak, Karol Beck, Andre Begeman, among others.”, he added. Carlos Costa made sports turn into his professional guideline. He did internship in Sports Medicine while taking a degree in Physiotherapy, he also worked in Fitness to improve this the exercises, besides, completed a Postgraduate study in Traditional Chinese Medicine and, by the end of the last year, a Postgraduation in Structural Osteopathy. This is no doubt, an added value to complement his knowledge and increase the variety of methods/techniques he’s been used so far. Perfeccionism and Demand Carlos Costa is a discreet and reserved person and refuses to point out the secrets for his success. Instead, he points out his main vertues to be a perfeccionist and very curious, to keep on increasing his knowledge, to be demanding and mainly to love challenges. His greatest challenge, at the moment, consist of working for Tommy Haas, the German veteran tennis player, who, according to Carlos Costa’s opinion is a very demanding player. Although Carlos assures that is daily life is similar to anyone else’s, the Portuguese on top of world tennis recognizes that travelling permanently makes the levels of his daily life more demanding. Carlos Costa as considered the most important moment in his career the tennis match, on the grass court of Halle, in 2012, when Tommy Haaas defeated Roger Federer. “The funniest story that happened to me occurred a few time after I had started working for Tommy. He asked me to drive a car and I had an accident immediately after his request. I had no idea about the place where I was, in such a big city like Los Angeles, I didn’t have a mobile phone with me and I didn’t know who was the car owner”, and there was a story to tell the German player. At the moment, Carlos Costa doesn’t want to set clear objectives to his future, every goal is being achieved at the right time. “ What moves me is primarily the success of athlete that I’m working for. Obviously, I will be very happy in case he/she wins a tournament as that is the result of my effort and professional dedication”, the young Portuguese said. Now he doesn’t intend to replace tennis for any sport.