As a 14-year-old, Mikael Ymer moved to Stockholm together with his father and older brother Elias to play tennis.
In Friday's episode of Carina Bergfeldt, the 24-year-old talks about growing up in the capital and how he and his family lived in the club's clubhouse in the early days.
- They had a club house at their gravel courts where there was a cafe and stuff like that.
We moved there in the late autumn and so we lived in that club house until the outdoor season started in the spring, he says.
The father slept in the café and Mikael and Elias slept in a bunk bed in the dressing room.
Everyday life was mostly about tennis and there was basically no school.
- At the time, I didn't see it as misery.
That was all we knew, me and my brother.
And dad made it very funny for us all the time.
Our days were 8-20 in the tennis hall and then we went straight in and slept, says Ymer.
- There wasn't much school.
Listen to the interview in the player above.
Carina Bergfeldt is broadcast on SVT1/SVT Play on Friday 21.00.