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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.

You Know, I Was A Regular On The Friday Afternoon Drill Squad. Um, Which... The Year After I Left School, I Went Back And Thanked The Sergeant Major Because I Was So Fit.

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.

There Was Kind Of A Code That You Had As An Australian That You Never Left The Court Losing Unless You Had Blood All Over You. That's The Sort Of Toughness You Need To Compete On The World Stage And I Feel That Our Kids Today Just Don't Have It.

I Chose To Stay With Tennis And They Didn't Understand That At The School.