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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.