I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.