This weekend, Tauranga hosted the New Zealand squash championships, featured the country's best players - and those just starting out.
As expected, former world No.1 Paul Coll took out the men's draw, inspiring plenty of youth at the tournament, but one teenager was using Coll as his own inspiration.
Not everyday you get to have a hit around with your idol, but for Freddie Jameson, that's now a reality.
"It's always been a hard goal of mine to get here, and be able to watch my idols like Joelle [King] and Paul play," he told Newshub.
Jameson, 17, made the cut to play at the championships, but just getting there has been something to celebrate.
"My illness is called hemihypertrophy, where one side of my legs grows faster than the other," he explained.
To combat the rare condition, Jameson has had eight surgeries. One of the biggest came on his 13th birthday, when surgeons extended the shin bone in his right leg, but when he woke up, he had the best birthday present waiting - meeting his hero.
Four years later, they faced off for the first time.
"He's put in some serious hard work and determination, stuck to it and persisted through all his troubles," Coll told Newshub. "I think everyone should take some inspiration from his story."
Jameson missed out on the quarter-finals, but his journey is only beginning.
He's off to the world junior squash championships at Melbourne this month and Coll knows one day he'll be a true threat.
"[You've] got to keep these young fellas in check," he joked. "I'll keep an eye on him, that's for sure."
"I could probably give him a run for his money now," Jameson hit back.
That youthful confidence might just have him on the same path to success as his idol.
