Oh sure—we’ve all seen you (and after I noticed you in particular person—from a distance—on the U.S. Open final yr, lots of people round me had their iPhones on you and never the courtroom. However now you’ve simply accomplished your personal circuit of Slams, haven’t you?

Alessandro: We have now. We’ve now been to all 4.

Do you’re employed in tennis? How can you journey as a lot as you do?

Alessandro: No, no we don’t have jobs in tennis! The six of us have six completely different jobs: I promote meat; one other is an worker within the R&D middle of a multinational firm; one other has a household firm that produces plastic luggage.

Lorenzo: 4 of us are unbiased employees, although, which makes it a bit of simpler. Not me—I’ve an workplace job.

Are you creating wealth doing this now? Do you get offers?

Alessandro: We don’t obtain cash—however, for instance, with Australia, the Australian Open journey group received us our lodging, transportation, flight, resort, and ticket to the match. Lavazza, the espresso firm, hosted us on the French Open.

Out of the six of you, who was the primary to have the thought to put on the carrot costumes—and did the remainder want convincing?

Alessandro: It was one in our group named Francesco. Some weeks earlier than the 1000-level match in Rome, Francesco despatched our WhatsApp group this costume concept—and yeah, I feel a few of us originally weren’t so satisfied about it.

Lorenzo: And you may perceive why: It’s one thing ridiculous.

Alessandro: Initially, we purchased the tickets for Rome months earlier than the match, so we had no concept if Jannik would even be enjoying or not—and he ended up enjoying the day we have been there. If he had performed the subsequent day, perhaps the Carota Boys would by no means be.

Are these carrots… Halloween costumes? Do you purchase them, or does somebody make them for you?

Alessandro: We truly purchased the unique costumes on Amazon—

Lorenzo: —then we requested an organization close to our city, which produces kidswear, if they might design one for us.

Alessandro: Now it has our emblem and all the things.

You’ve met Jannik, sure? Do you be in contact?

Alessandro: We’ve had a number of conferences with him. The primary was in New York—we took a photograph with him there. However now we’re in contact repeatedly, as a result of we’ve got a WhatsApp group all collectively.

Lorenzo: After all, through the tournaments he’s actually targeted, so we simply will write a fast phrase of encouragement—

Alessandro: —however it’s wonderful.

And the entire thing has actually caught on—the cameras love you. With all this recognition, what has been the craziest second with followers?

Lorenzo: It’s actually a bit of bizarre and unusual—we’re in plenty of selfies—however one of the vital unusual issues is: In Italy, there’s a well-known TV program that’s on at dinnertime, and a few days in the past we have been introduced up, and abruptly our mother and father, our mates, everybody was asking us about it.

Alessandro: It’s ridiculous—all as a result of in the future we determined to placed on carrot costumes.

This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.