On the 20th anniversary of Petr Korda’s Australian Open triumph, son Sebastian is back at Melbourne Park carrying on the family name. The seventh seed, who has reached the third round of the boys’ singles, knows all about the trademark scissor kick, too, incidentally. Did it once in a tournament. Nailed it. “Amazing,’’ he laughs.

Mum is former tennis pro Regina Rajchrtova, and sisters Jessica and Nelly are world-ranked golfers, the former having won the 2012 Australian Open and now competing on the LPGA Tour. While Sebastian played ice hockey as a youngster, it was after a visit to watch Czech Radek Stepanek – then coached by his Dad – play at the US Open that the then 10-year-old decided he was playing the wrong game.

Yet it has taken until the Florida-born-and-raised Korda’s final year of under-age tennis for him to make it to Australia, having chosen to stay at home and play some Futures events in 2017 instead. Overseeing things here is USTA coach, Dean Goldfine, although his father is his main coach and the one who pulls the strings.