I Chose To Stay With Tennis And

A Few Of Us Who Are Around The Sixty Mark Don't Play That Much These Days And If You Are Taking On A Couple Of Guys In Their Forties It Is Very Difficult.

People Think This Is All About The Top Players Hitting Tenins Balls And They Talk About Technique And Strategy And How Important That Is. But They Don't Understand The Essence Of Competition. This Is One-on-one, Two Players Out There Fighting Each Other With Everything They Have, Trying To Bring The Best Out Of Themselves. And The Difference At This Level Of The Game Is All In The Head And In The Heart.

Your Game Is Only As Good As Your Second Serve

It's Actually What I Consider Legalised Cheating Because One Of The Great Senses That You Have On A Tennis Court Is Your Ability To Hear The Ball Come Off Your Opponent's Strings [on Sharapova Grunting

I'd Also Made The First Tennis Team. I Was Number Two Player In The School At 11 Years Of Age And That Didn't Sit Very Well With People.