John Isner became a father for the first time ten days ago, but the American still decided to play Laver Cup and reached Chicago on Wednesday. Isner feels excited about this time of his life. 'My wife's been amazing,' the 33-year-old said.

'I can show you a picture on my phone. My daughter watched her first match with me. I don't think she will remember it. My wife is changing her diaper and I'm on the TV. She took a picture. I'm certainly enjoying it.

Look, my flight is tomorrow night back home. It's super tough being away right now, but I also made the decision not to go to Asia. I think of all the 14 players that are here, I'm the only one not making that trip because I want to be back home.' Isner will skip Beijing and Shanghai and is set to be back to compete in mid-October in Stockholm.

But speaking about fatherhood again, Isner revealed that Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, who respectively have two and four children, have given him a few tips. 'I'm going to have to learn on my own, you know, the lion's share of stuff', Isner admitted.

'It will more than likely be done by my wife, especially when I'm on the road. But hopefully my family, I think, in 2019 can travel with me. We'll see how that goes. It's going to be, for me personally, it's going to be an adjustment.

Going to see how that goes with sleep schedules and whatnot. Of course, as an athlete, we need our rest as much as we possibly can to perform. I'm no different. Trust me, I need a lot of rest. But at this moment in time, I'm just going to enjoy this, because this is so special for me.

I certainly miss my daughter incredibly much right now. But to answer your second part, I can't imagine how tough that is to balance having a kid and travel and compete at the top level like Serena is doing and Azarenka is doing, as well.

I can't think off the top of my head who else is doing it, but kudos to them, because that's gotta be incredibly tough. It's hard enough as the father, but to be the mother, as well, and I know what my wife is going through right now recovery-wise, to be able to recover from that.

Very impressive what they are doing.' ALSO READ: Del Potro: I lost the respect and fear I had for Roger Federer