I have so much respect for him and what he brings to the court, his tenacity out there, his numerous abilities, foot speed, his shot selection, his cunning on the court.

It took us 30 minutes to shake them. Maybe 35 minutes, and that's due to their tenacity. Hilton Armstrong changed everything in the middle.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

His day is done, and now we're doing it. And we're doing it pretty well and not with fingers in the air and our hands on our crotches.