I Chose To Stay With Tennis And

Your Game Is Only As Good As Your Second Serve

By The Time I Got To The Hospital, I Certainly Realised That I Had A Problem Because I Couldn't Write Or Print At That Time, Which Lasted Luckily Only About Four Months. I'd Gone Numb Here And On My Tongue And The Right Foot A Little Bit.

I Was A Pretty Feisty Young Kid.

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.

I Was In The Main Draw From The Start, My Opening Match Was On Court One Against Jan Eric Lundquist Of Sweden Who Was About Eight In The World At The Time.