It played two paced, some balls went through and some lagged like a tennis bounce.

You end up getting into what tennis is — it'll be one winner, or two winners, the same three guys all year.

When the Williams sisters came into tennis, there was so much rampant racism that it was unbelievable. When Arthur Ashe was playing the good game of tennis, he had to contend with nonsense. When Tiger Woods hit the professional golf ranks, he had dumb people talking about fried-chicken dinners and sitting watermelons out on the golf course.

Early on I saw that the wicket was holding up, some balls were actually stopping so I decided to use the wicket as one of my weapons and change up my pace a lot.

You're almost guaranteed points every time she competes. She brings a lot of senior leadership to the team. Her desire is to bring the girls together. That's a quality you can't teach.

We should look for at least 150 runs to add on their score to give us something to start with and we can go hard at them in the second innings.