Justin Engel Diet: Fueling Germany’s Tennis Star

Although he has needed a last-minute leave to access the #NextGen Finals 2025we must not forget the great season that has taken place Justin Engel at 18 years of age. A German called to be an earthquake in the medium term.

It’s good that the colleagues of Tennis Magazine They are always close to the protagonists to bring us stories and information about their origins. It couldn’t be anyone else who sat with the good guy. Justin Engel to delve a little deeper into his beginnings, his hobbies, his current work with Philipp Kohlschreiber or his tremendous takeoff in the 2025 season. To tell the tale, he will even tell us the secrets of a super specific diet that has helped him find his maximum potential as an athlete.

“Without my grandmother Jelena today I would not be who I am, she was the one who raised me“, the German begins explaining in the interview, sharing responsibilities for his young success. “My grandmother and my mother, those are the women that I will love the most forever. When you are a child, you never know where they will take you depending on what things, so I will also be grateful to my father for being the person who introduced me to tennis,” Engel summarizes in relation to the family circle.

At 18 years old, it is a luxury to see his name in position #187 in the rankings, although the merit is multiplied if we take into account that the racket was not always the first option. “It is true that I also practiced a lot kickboxingalso at a good level, but finally I opted for tennis. The risk of injury would have been too high, so this was the reason that made me choose tennis. However, in the kickboxing You also train a lot your mentality, movements and coordination, which later helped me a lot in tennis. It is a sport that greatly increases self-confidence,” compares the Nurenberger about his two great passions.

Already with tennis as his main frontier, Justin has been climbing by leaps and bounds in this 2025 season where we have seen him win his first Challenger title in Hamburg, a better place impossible. But in addition, the German also uncovered the jar of essences by winning official matches on clay (Hamburg) and on grass (Stuttgart), which added to the victory achieved on hard court in 2024 (Astana) makes him the youngest since Rafa Nadal to win on all three surfaces of the circuit. Of course, he has been at his side for some time. Philipp Kohlschreiberso it all makes sense.

“I want to give my game even more variety, that’s why it’s so positive to have a person like Philipp around, it’s incredible to have him on my team,” notes the young man with admiration. “Everyone knows how varied he played when he was a player, he always had a lot of ingenuity on the court. I still don’t have it, so we are working on it. I have always been a hitter, I hit the ball hard, but I notice that my tennis has evolved in all lines. There is significant progress, I know I can go far, so I am working to be mentally prepared for it,” he admits with enthusiasm.

This is Justin Engel’s curious diet

Once the main subjects in Justin Engel’s environment were already known, the question about his diet, his way of eating, was curious, a moment where the German surprised with some foods that he has been consuming since he was a child, but that today are essential to find balance on and off the court. A kid who is just starting out in professionalism but who already takes very seriously the factors that can give you a push to differentiate yourself from others.

“I eat as little bread as possible and try to avoid wheat,” emphasizes the 18-year-old. “Whole wheat noodles, for example, are very important to me. Since I was three years old I have been eating oatmeal porridge every day.Every day, I eat them in a giant pot with oat milk and no sugar. They taste very bad, it’s true, but in the end you get used to it. In hotels I always eat scrambled eggs, eight to ten eggs a day. I really eat a lot, but I need it to give me energy,” says the man who we will see in Jeddah next week among the best sub-20 in the world.