Luxury watch brand Longines has hosted a tournament for kids under age 13 in Paris during the first week of the French Open for the past eight years, alternating boys and girls annually. Twenty talented young boys were chosen to represent their countries in 2017, and Martyn Pawelski of Poland took home the trophy. The goal of this multi-national event is to promote the development of the players who could go on to win Roland Garros in ten years.

Andre Agassi, celebrating a decade as a Longines ambassador, attended this year’s championship match on June 4 and played an exhibition with two-time French Open finalist Alex Corretja and the two Longines Future Tennis Aces finalists, Pawelski and Hong Kong’s Chak Lam Coleman Wong. After the event, Agassi shared his advice for young players as well as his thoughts on Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer.

Agassi’s Advice for Young Players: Focus on learning, not on winning

“Tennis is a great sport because it’s a lot about life, and a lot about problem solving, so my suggestion would be: don’t value the winning and losing, value the learning and the growing and the making yourself better. When you get hung up on success and failures, you feel a lot of unnecessary pressures. I would emphasize to focus on today and making yourself a little bit better. If you can do it and win at the same time, great; if you lose, use that too.”

Agassi on Djokovic Going Five Sets against Schwartzman: It’s a teachable moment

“I put it all in perspective; by the end, it was a great teachable moment and he’s a spectacular player that can get through difficult times even if he’s not necessarily on point. Novak quite frankly has to just meet everybody where they are, raise the stakes a little bit, and keep asking them to do a little bit more, and I’ve got a hunch he can do it easier than most of the people he plays.”

Agassi on Putting Nadal’s Roland Garros Achievements in Perspective: Just write it down

“This is one of those scenarios where I think the statistics alone put it into perspective. It’s a Herculean task to win [Roland Garros] once. Winning Roland Garros ten times – forget that, winning it nine times – all you have to do is write that down on a piece of paper and it sort of puts it in perspective. I think the harder thing to put in perspective is what Federer accomplished in Australia, six months away from the game and competition at his age and he goes out there and wins the way he did.”

Agassi on Federer Skipping the Clay Season: He knows what’s best for him

“I’m going to guess that he is better at making decisions for himself than I would be from this vantage point. At first glance, it does seem like a lot of time away from the game; in my experience, playing a little bit of the clay helped me prepare for the grass just because it kept me in my mindset and it kept me disciplined. But he’s proven me wrong so many times. He’s stopped surprising me, but he continually amazes me. And to watch him go into Wimbledon, it wouldn’t shock me if he goes in there like nothing’s ever happened.”

Longines, the official timekeeper of Roland Garros, created a special watch to honor the French Open: The Conquest 1/100th Roland-Garros. The elegant timepiece keeps precision time to one one-hundredth of a second, with hints of reddish-orange to reference the striking color of the clay courts.