I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was playing good tennis up until 100.
I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.
I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.