Kieran Gibbs has revealed his love for both tennis and basketball.

The Arsenal left-back grew up as a keen tennis player and is also a huge fan of basketball, using the two sports to get away from football whenever he can.

Gibbs also touched on his non-footballing idols in the form of tennis champions Roger Federer and Andy Murray, and NBA hero Steph Curry.

"I've played since I can remember," he told Arsenal Player.

"If I spend some time in Miami, I have a friend out there who's a tennis coach and trains me. I just like the game - I love Wimbledon and I like some of the players involved in the game.

"A lot of my heroes are tennis players - Federer, and I'm a big fan of Murray.

"I like basketball. I watch it quite a bit when I can and [Steph Curry] is one of the players I watch. It's the fact that he was late developing physically [that I admire].

"No one really gave him a look in because of his size and I was a bit like that when I first came to the club at 14. I was a lot smaller - you can see in the pictures - than a lot of my team-mates. They were already fully grown at 14 for some reason… it was just crazy.

"He was a late developer and he just showed that it's not really about size. He never stopped trying and he's an incredible player but mentally he's shown that he can overcome quite a lot of doubt in other people by sticking to his game - he's changed the game."