Your Game Is Only As Good As

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 A Pretty Feisty Young Kid.

That Match Was Late Evening And I Had The Experience Of The Electricity Of The Centre Court Because It Was Packed, A Full House For The Whole Match. It Had Been A Great Year For Me, First Time There And I Had The Full Taste Of Wimbledon.

I Had Started My Love Affair With Wimbledon.

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.